Problems adding a second hard drive

Mike Maltese mike at pcmedx.com
Thu Jan 8 13:14:12 PST 2004


> It took me a little time to figure how to do this but I managed (or so I
> thought) to install FreeBSD.  However although I can see both drives
during
> the installation  if I do a df all that is displayed is ad0s with no
> information on ad2s.  Also I cannot install any more programms since it
says

df only shows mounted filesytems.

> /usr is full.  I'm begining to wonder if the ad2s drive is being used at
> all.  When I installed FreeBSD I used the auto defaults for both drives.
> Was this the right thing to do?  Any hints or tips would be usefull.

If you configured the second drive at install time, it should be usable. Try
mounting a partition to /mnt. To find the partition scheme, run 'disklabel
ad2'. Any partition of type 4.2BSD is usable.

Mike



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