add a harddrive to an existing system

[Chris]

Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net> 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?

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Best regards,
Chris

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