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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] Is there any way to add a new disk drive to running fs?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:15:03 -0600

>From: okamoto@gra...
>Subject: [9fans] Is there any way to add a new disk drive to running fs?

Well you do have to reboot it.  If the config was something like:

filsys main w0.0

and you are adding target 1, you reboot and at the "press a key
for config mode" prompt, hit the space bar and type:

filsys main (w0.0w0.1)
end

this will concatenate the drive to the main file system.
(DO NOT REAM IT.)

If I remeber the old code, if you now run a "check free", it will
notice the file system has gotten bigger and will do the right thing.

I would study the source before I actually did it though.