adding an "old' disk as a new mount point?

[Derek Ragona]

You may want to repartition the disk and do a newfs to update the 
filesystem, and be sure the whole disk is used.

         -Derek


At 04:10 PM 6/14/2006, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
>I'm sure this is a very RTFM question, but I'm getting a little lost in 
>the minutae about just exactly what I'm looking for.
>
>I've got an "old" freebsd 4.4 system (single hard disk) and a new server 
>with 6.0 installed. The new system is working just fine and I would like 
>to install the disk from the old server as a data disk in the new machine 
>for a little while until I can kick it loose and use it for new data. What 
>am I looking for becuase each time I try to search the internet for the 
>question, i get results about adding brand new disks, adding swap space or 
>converting filesystems...
>
>I'm thinking I can simply plug in the older drive, find out what partition 
>it's been named and then count it like I would any other mount point, 
>provided I create the infrustructure to do that (creat mount point, fstab, 
>etc.)
>
>Is it that simple, or should I be afaid, very afraid...
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff.
>
>
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