Installing on two hard drives

[Mark Vasquez]

Gerard Seibert wrote:

> I am planning to install FreeBSD 5.3 on one of my computers. I 
> presently have version 5.2.1 installed on another box.
>
> The one that I want to install on now has two hard drives. I would 
> like to install everything except "USR" on one drive and "USR" on the 
> other. That would seem to afford me the most advantageous use of disk 
> space. It seems that I was always running low on disk space on the 
> other unit I have in use. Both drives, by the way, are 10 GB in size.

I have FreeBSD installed on a system with two disks, where home is 
mounted to the 2nd disk, while /, /usr/, and /var are mounted to 2 
seperate partitions on the 1st disk.

>
> My question is how to go about this. This will be a fresh install with 
> no other OS to be taken into consideration. I have checked the Hand 
> Book, but I was not able to find exactly what I was looking for. Then 
> again, I am not the most efficient searcher.


I did this by installing BSD to the 1st disk, then using sysinstall to 
format and create a filesystem on the 2nd disk. After that I just 
modified the /etc/fstab file so that the correct filesystem would be 
mounted to /home, then used the command "mount /home" and it was done.

There are precise instructions for adding a disk to an existing system 
in "The complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey.

By the way, it is not recommended to have /usr mounted to a seperate 
filesystem. I believe that the reason for this is because it can cause 
problems when upgrading a system.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Gerard Seibert
> gerard-seibert at rcn.com
>
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>
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