Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:

Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:



Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an
existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such,
as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and
how to best optimize this drive. Also, I'm thinking of obtaining an
identical drive as my system drive and performing a dump of sorts on a
schedule for backup purposes. anyone have any insight?


Not actually in the Handbook, but what you want is: the "Disk Formatting Tutorial".
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html






There *is* a chapter in the handbook, however; it's Chapter 16 in
my latest doc build (but I don't think it's quite _new_).  Section .3,
entitled "adding disks", covers the scenario quite well.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey


I read that also however, I have a question about it. In the example I read (by Doug White) he used /usr/home as the point of reference. The question I have is this, what becomes of the space left over on the 1st drive now that /usr/home has been effectively moved?

Can you merge this in someplace else? Say /swap or /var?

--
Best regards,
Chris

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firing the coach.
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