I have two scsi disks that I'd like to add to my running 1.5 system, but
I'm a confused about how to use the disklabel program.  I have /, /usr,
and swap partitions on sd0 now; I'd like to mount /usr/pkg on sd1 and
/home on sd2, plus maybe a 128mb swap partition on each, in the event
that I add more memory someday.

From looking at disklabels from other NetBSD installs, it seems that 'a'
is always used with the / partition, 'b' with swap, and 'g' with /usr.
Are these hard and fast rules, or just conventions?  To configure sd1 as
I described above, would I just replace the 'a' and 'b' lines in the
partitions section with the sizes and fs types I want?

Also, I see there is an "offset" of 1216 on partition a on each disk--do
I need to preserve that?


Phil Brodd


Here is the current output of disklabel for each disk:


# /dev/rsd1c:
type: SCSI
disk: FIREBALL1280S
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 151
tracks/cylinder: 4
sectors/cylinder: 604
cylinders: 4135
total sectors: 2503872
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# microseconds
drivedata: 0

3 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:  2502646     1216        HFS                        # (Cyl.    2*- 4145*)
  b:       10  2503862    unknown                        # (Cyl. 4145*- 4145*)
  c:  2503872        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 4145*)



# /dev/rsd2c:
type: SCSI
disk: DCAS-32160
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 172
tracks/cylinder: 3
sectors/cylinder: 516
cylinders: 8188
total sectors: 4226725
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# microseconds
drivedata: 0

3 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:  4225499     1216        HFS                        # (Cyl.    2*- 8191*)
  b:       10  4226715    unknown                        # (Cyl. 8191*- 8191*)
  c:  4226725        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 8191*)