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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI help Date: 26 Oct 1996 17:40:35 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <54tiej$372@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <1996Oct26.150550.3068@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <1996Oct26.150550.3068@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, pinc_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Joshua Pincus) writes: >I just got my hands on a SCSI drive and I would like to >add it to my filesystem. I got an Adaptec 1542B, and the drive >and the card talk to FreeBSD fine. What I am having trouble with is >the actual partitioning and labeling. The easiest way I have found is to boot the system into single-user mode, make sure that /stand is mounted, and run /stand/sysinstall and use the menu-driven installation program to create the disk. This runs fdisk, newfs, and the other command line utilities with the appropriate options to label and create the filesystem on the disk. One thing I would like to ask the developers, is there a difference between splitting a disk up between multiple slices, or a single slice? For example, a friend of mine told me that Unixes run better when the filesystem is spread over a, d, e f, partitions, when the partitions are kept under 200MB. However when I have added disks, I have simply made each additional disk a giant partition, and mounted it wherever I wanted, and I never saw any degredation in speed.