I am playing again with my little DF NAS project tonight after almost 5 days of break due to a flu. Apparently my brain was not working last time around since I have no problem locating Adding a Disk section in the Handbook. It is under the UNIX Basics chapter section 8
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/UnixBasics/ In the mean time I did end up reviewing everything about Slices (also fdisk and gpt utilities) as well as Partitions (disklabel32 and disklabel64) No interestingly enough putting two used HDDs into my NAS I can immediately see dfly# ls -l /dev/serno total 0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x1e110027 Mar 11 23:15 B620550018 crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x1e120027 Mar 11 23:15 B620550018.s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x00020020 Mar 11 23:15 B620550018.s1a crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x00020021 Mar 11 23:15 B620550018.s1b crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x00020023 Mar 11 23:15 B620550018.s1d crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x1e110047 Mar 12 04:26 WD-WCAWZ2111282 crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x1e100047 Mar 11 23:15 WD-WCAWZ2111282.s0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x1e11002f Mar 11 23:15 WD-WCAWZ2969584 crw-r----- 1 root operator 23, 0x1e10002f Mar 11 23:15 WD-WCAWZ2969584.s0 without even using gpt. Would that be the case if I had 2 brand new HDDs? I was able to create HAMMER file system on one of them newfs_hammer -L data /dev/serno/WD-WCAWZ2111282 even after running gpt destroy /dev/ad8 (that is actually WD-WCAWZ2111282 drive). That is probably the reason I don't remember messing up with gpt and disklabel64 when I played with this few months ago in the VirtualBox. I also get swapcache suggestion for the SSDs. Predrag
