Storage Provisioning - BSD

FreeBSD Device Names

da - storage name begins with da is is SCSI|SATA|USB

ad - IDE mass storage

fla - flash

cd - SCSI|SATA cd-roms

acd - IDE cd roms 

fd - floppy

/var/run/demsg.boot contains log of detected hardware @ last boot.

# dmesg - this comment also give the same output.

I have added a 4 GB disk to the system and I am partitioning this as 4 GB pation and mounting this /storage

Steps involved:

1. # sysinstall

2. Select the option  >> 

3.This will lead us to the fdisk window and in fdisk window select  option. 

4.In the next screen select No boot loader option 

Save and quit
2. Re-enter sysinstall

a. configure
b.label
c. assign one or more label and mount point.
d. exit and check if the mount points suing # df -h and # cat /etc/fstab

Update /etc/fstab
/dev/ada1s1d /storage ufs rw 2 2