Partitioning a Hard Disk
Okay—now that all the background is out of the way, it’s time to get down to the action. Adding a new disk to the system involves four steps: installing it, partitioning it, labeling it, and mounting it. Depending on whether you’ve gone with a SCSI or IDE disk, the installation procedure varies; use the installation instructions that come with the disk.
The following examples assume you’ve installed a new 80GB IDE disk as the primary slave. The device name is /dev/ad1. (You can learn more about FreeBSD filesystem structure, device names, and mount points in Chapter 12.) A SCSI disk in a similar configuration would be /dev/da1; the rest of the instructions here apply just the same.) As you learned earlier, there’s a lot ...
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