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Adding a new disk in FreeBSD

finding newly added disk:

# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot

initializing the disk:

# fdisk -BI /dev/ad8

creating the disklabel for the first slice:

# bsdlabel -w -B ad8s1

editing the disklabel for the created slice:

# bsdlabel -e ad8s1

verify disklabel:

# bsdlabel ad8s1
# /dev/ad8s1:
8 partitions:               
       size    offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg] 
b:   716800         0    swap
c:   976773105      0    unused        0     0         
e:   976056305 716800    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528

Create a new ufs2 filesystem on each partition: