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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news3.cac.psu.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!Lehigh.EDU!flash From: flash@EECS.Lehigh.EDU (Stephen Corbesero) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Would someone give me a clue about partitioning a new disk Date: 22 Aug 1996 19:42:16 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4vid6o$12il@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: boromir.eecs.lehigh.edu Ok... call me stupid.... but... I just added a scsi drive (Seagate 2GB Barracuda) on an Adaptec 2940 controller to a working freebsd system. I have no problem doing a newfs on the entire drive, but I can't seem to figure out how to partition it into smaller pieces and be able to run newfs on those pieces. I have tried using /stand/sysinstal. I can do the low level partitioning, and that seems to work. But newfs can't find any partitions. (I've tried /dev/rsd0a, /dev/rsd0s1, /dev/rsd0s1a, /dev/rsd0s1e, <insert your favorite combo of [a-z0-3]*>) So, I tried labelling (also from sysinstall), but it complains about a lot of things (no /, no usr, ... ) Is there a sequence of steps somewhere I should be following? This would seem like a real good section for the handbook. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen Corbesero Systems Manager and Adjunct Lecturer 19 Memorial Drive West, EECS Dept. "What are we going to do tonight, Brain?" Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA 18015 "The same thing we do every night, Pinky," corbesero@eecs.lehigh.edu " --- RE-INSTALL WINDOWS '95. --- "