Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st
Chris Hill
chris at monochrome.org
Tue Mar 8 20:09:20 PST 2005
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.
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Chris Hill chris at monochrome.org
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