Chris Hill wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Chris wrote: > >> I have a 5.3 system that has an 80 gig drive. I wish to add another to >> it. What's the best (easiest) way to expand this with little to no >> effect on the current drive. > > > You want this second disk for extra storage, right? Not for dual-boot or > something? > > Assuming extra storage, you could do what I did: Shut down the machine, > install the second disk, power up the machine. Once you're booted, look > at dmesg to see how the new drive was detected (maybe ad4? depends on > your mobo's controllers and how/where the new disk was connected). I > then ran /stand/sysinstall (this was back in the 4.x days) and created > and newfs'd one big partition on the new disk. Then did #mkdir /usr1, > and added an entry to /etc/fstab: > > /dev/ad5s1c /usr1 ufs rw 2 2 > > ...and suddenly there was another 160GB available under /usr1. Effect on > the first drive: zero. > > HTH... YMMV. > > -- > Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > >
Ok - seems easy enough - however, what if I want to move /usr/home to this new drive? -- Best regards, Chris A bird in hand is safer than one overhead. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
