Chris wrote:
> What would be the easist way to add say a /home partition in NetBSD 1.3 
> and have it come up on boot?

What kind of disk space do you have? ;-)

For the "generic" answer:

1) Create a partition of the desired size using your favorite formatting
software (or clean off an old partition that you don't need anymore).
2) Use Mkfs to zap the partition into a NetBSD Usr type partition.
3) Use Mkfs to "format" the partition
4) Boot into NetBSD (might as well be multi-user)
5) Archive your current home directory:  (as root)

	cd /
	tar cvpf /tmp/home.tar /home
6) Figure out where your new partition is:  first, find out which disk
device the partition is on (e.g. sd0, sd1) and do 'disklabel sdX' where
'X' is the number of the device in question.  The output should show you
at least 1 new partition of type "NetBSD Usr".  Remember which letter the
partition is assigned to.
7) Add the partition to /etc/fstab (here's mine, yours probably won't be
on 'e'):

/dev/sd0e       /home   ffs     rw 1 2

8) Attempt to mount it:

mount /home
ls /home

You should get a relatively empty directory with only "lost+found" in it.

9) Unarchive the old home into the new one:

tar xvpf /tmp/home.tar

10) Unmount the directory:

umount /home

11) Remove the old directory, make a new one;

/bin/rm -rf /home
mkdir /home

11) Remount the new dir:

mount /home

12) Make sure everything is still there via 'ls'


At this point, you should be able to reboot and have the directory mount
automatically on multi-user boot.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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