How to mount hardisk in freebsd

How to mount hardisk in freebsd

this tutorial will cover on how to mount new hardisk into your current server.

mount using fstab

fstab is configuration files where the system save the mount settings. as per default, usually user will be promt at installation of OS where to mount your partition. root partition and swap usually are automaticaly setup.

where is fstab located?

/etc/fstab

how to edit?

using your favourite text editor. nano, vi, ee

sudo vi /etc/fstab

Device - the device detected, u can use dmesg to detect the devices.

Mountpoint - location where u planed to mount the new storage.

FStype - type of file system. eg: ufs, nfs, swap. fat32, ext4
Option - Option to mount. please refer to the manual as there is many option for mouting. rw is for read and write

FIRST PART

cat /proc/partitions | grep sd
#fdisk -l
#fdisk /dev/sdb
press n
press p (for Primary)
keep default value
keep default value (if we want to use entire disk)
press p (to verify created partition
press w (to write changes)
#partprobe /dev/sdb (to make Kernel reread the partition table)

SECOND PART

#mkdir /data
#chmod -R 777 /data (make it available to all users)
#mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 (format the new drive)
>>>> optional for freebsd: #newfs </dev/da1s>
#mount /dev/sdb1 /data
#nano /etc/fstab
add /dev/sdb1 /data ext3 defaults 0 0
#mount -a
#df -h

DONE

-------refer 172.17.250.76
How to change the hardisk parth > edit in vi /etc/fstab


mount -t cifs //ipaddress/backup -o username=admin,password=admin /mountpath

fstab option
//ipaddress/backup  /datadomain     cifs    username=admin,password=admin,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm   0       0 >>>>>>>>>>add kat /etc/fstab

how to unmount

simple ways.
umount  /mountpath

or

delete the entry added before in fstab and restart.

or mount -a (this one automaticaly unmount partition that is not main partition)

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