Shocks! I cannot believe that there is no utility to format
and partition a drive.

Are there any future plans for this?

Marcel
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		  Marcel O. Chukwunenye
Lead Engineer/SW, Unix System Administrator (407)-729-5430
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Email: mchukwun@harris.com

>From port-pmax-owner-mchukwun=harris.com@NetBSD.ORG Thu Jun 25 19:22:05 1998
>Return-Path: <port-pmax-owner-mchukwun=harris.com@NetBSD.ORG>
>From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
>To: moc@mlb.semi.harris.com (Marcel Chukwunenye)
>Cc: port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Adding Disk Drives to NetBSD 
>Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:16:23 +1000
>Delivered-To: port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG
>
>On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:40:24 EDT  Marcel Chukwunenye wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> I would like to add a 2.1GB drives to my NetBSD systems.
>> 
>> How can I format and partition the drive under NetBSD?
>> 
>> I am working with version 1.3.2. on a DEC 5000/200 and 
>> DEC 5000/240 systems.
>
>If you just want to use the entire drive as one large partition, just
>newfs the whole drive:
>
>	newfs /dev/rrzXc
>
>which X is the SCSI id of the new disk.  Note that you make have to make
>the device entries in /dev for the disk.  If you, type:
>
>	cd /dev
>	./MAKEDEV rzX
>
>again, where X is the SCSI id of the disk.
>
>Anything more fancy will involve playing around with the disklabel
>command.  There are some examples of how to use the command in the man
>page.
>
>Simon.
>