Thanks, Steve!

Works like a charm. I actually used e which was the whole volume... :) 
Disk is now mounted as ffs and copying all my data to it... taking some 
time... but progressing nicely. :)

You assumed correctly that it's i386...

Gilles.

Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:02:28 +0200
> Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> Just got myself a new 700GB IDE disk to add to my trusty NetBSD 3.1
>> server as a data disk. The system disk is seen as wd0 ... the new
>> disk is wd1 ... Question is : what are the steps to format and
>> partition that new disk so that it is one big volume (i.e. 100% of
>> the disk capacity)... preferably with some form of journalized file
>> system (though my machine has yet to experience a crash which could
>> corrupt a file system - thanks to NetBSD being rock stable)?
>>
>>     
> You don't say what platform; I'll assume i386.
>
> Run 'fdisk -u wd1' to create an fdisk partition.  Start at sector 63
> and use the rest for the partition.  Run 'disklabel -i wd1' to create a
> NetBSD partition -- I'd use 'a', though I suppose there's no reason not
> to use 'c' which is all of the NetBSD space.  Run 'newfs wd1a' (or
> 'newfs wd1c') to initialize the file system.  Add it to /etc/fstab and
> you're in business.
>
>
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>   

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