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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Would someone give me a clue about partitioning a new disk
Date: 24 Aug 1996 07:31:07 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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silee@news.hk.super.net (Mr Simon Lee) wrote:

> : 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.
> 
> try fdisk /dev/rsd1

This won't get you further.  fdisk tables are fairly meaningless for
BSD.  (They are only meaningful for disks shared with other systems.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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