add a harddrive to an existing system

[Chris]

Chris wrote:
> 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?
> 

I wanted to add this - this is the example:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x221.html


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Best regards,
Chris

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