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I had need of a new drive to make a backup. I was having extreme
trouble with one box, and had no network connections at all. I borrowed a disk from
someone and tried following the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html.
Unfortunately, they failed me. Using sysinstall, I was told my disks could not be
found. Strange. I was booting off one of them.
Using the first set of instructions under 10.5.2.2 Dedicated, I failed when I did the
step:
# disklabel -e da1 # create the `e' partition
Ummmm, I had no idea how to do that....
So I did the next best thing. I tried the alternate method:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 count=2
# disklabel /dev/rda1 | disklabel -BrR da1 /dev/stdin
# newfs /dev/rda1e
newfs: /dev/rwd1e: 'e' partition is unavailable
# newfs /dev/rda1e
Hmmm, that's not much better. Then I remembered what I'd seen under
"disklabel -e da1", namely a 'c' partition. So I tried this instead:
# newfs /dev/rda1c
That worked!
So then it was on to backing up one drive to another. Which I will write about
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