I have a second hard drive on my box - I have run sysinstall to configure it with fdisk and dsklabel - Now, how do I get the system to recognize the drive?
The drive will be used mostly for backups of our webserver - it's an identical drive to the primary

what steps are necessary to make the system recognize the drive and to implement the backup of mysql data as well as physical files in the web root area?


sorry for the noob question...

Blake

Are you running Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac.....what?....what kind of Mac, BSD, Windows, or Linux is it?

If what you're "attempting" to say is that it is partitioned and formatted.

In a terminal as root or sudo run command: fdisk -l to see all drives and their partitions. If it shows up as /dev/sdb and the first partition is /dev/sdb1, you need to mount it. Let's just guess you formatted it HFS+ (since you say nothing at all). Make a directory to access it with command similar to: mkdir /macpartition, then you have to enable HFS+ support since it is not enabled by default with commands: modprobe hfs and modprobe hfsplus. Now mount it to the directory you made earlier with command: mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb1 /macpartition. Now you should be able to see the empty drive in /macpartition.

You may have to install similar packages first: hfsplus, hfsutils, hfsutils-tcltk

running pcbsd as i mentioned in the subject line