Jukka Marin wrote:

>
>Label (partition) the disk first and then newfs the partition(s) you have
>created.  On i386. you never use the partition d (the entire disk), use
>partition e instead (if you want to use the disk as a single partition).
>
>With newfs, use the raw device (ie. /dev/rwd2e).
>
>  -jm
>

I did disklabel -e /dev/wd2, edited and added 4.2BSD as filesystem (the only
partition it had was d).  After that I did newfs /dev/rwd2d and 
everything worked
fine.  Now I have

# df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a     4952438   687258   4017558    14%    /
/dev/wd0f      990582   233779    707273    24%    /var
/dev/wd0g     5935772  2935897   2703086    52%    /usr
/dev/wd0e    19809424 16308331   2510621    86%    /home
kernfs              1        1         0   100%    /kern
/dev/wd1d    75591887 17827299  53984993    24%    /backup

/backup which is wd1d used to be wd2d (I took the old HDD out). 
 Everything seems
to work fine.  I also enabled softupdates for the first time 
ever....does anyone know
how stable softdep is? I'm using the 1.5X snapshot from August 27.

Cheers