Ralphbsz, yes, ada0 is the OS and ada1 is the newdisk.
And that looks good. Both have file systems, both are mounted. The permissions from
/etc/fstab look normal too.
When I type su I get the # prompt without password.
Weird. Does your root account have a password? Find a text console, try to log on as root: does it ask you for a password? If not, then I'm amazed that you managed to install and configure the OS without a root password.
By the way, if that is true: IMMEDIATELY select a good root password, write it down in a safe place (not on a yellow sticker in your wallet or on the edge of the monitor), and change the root password, with the
passwrd
command.
I also have one admin user with password whom I thought was also root user. So, it seems that admin is not also root.
You need to explain more. Where did the admin user come from? What is their user ID? The usual definition of "root" is: the user whose user ID and group ID is zero. Please look at your /etc/passwd file; the user ID and group ID are the 3rd and 4th field of each line. If the admin user has non-zero user ID, it will not work well to administrate the system.
Another question: Why are you using an admin user? Why not just use root directly? If you change the user/group ID of the admin user to be 0, they are de facto identical to root, just with a different name. That's just unneeded complexity. (See footnote below.)
I don't want to go through adding user...I am the only one that have access to the computer.
In that case, you should have exactly two user accounts that one can log into (in addition to a whole lot of pseudo-accounts in
/etc/passwd: One for your normal, user-level work (like browsing the web, sending e-mail, practicing programming, ...), and root. Nothing else is needed. In the future, you might want to add more user accounts for when you take on different roles; for example, I have two user accounts on my machine, one for normal home stuff, another for when I have to use my home computer for work-related stuff.
(Now the footnote. There is actually a tradition of having multiple "root" accounts. One is typically spelled "toor", and may use a different log-in shell, for example ksh instead of tcsh. But they have the same user/group ID and home directory, just different log in shells. The Unix notion of "user" is a little confusing; there is the user name that's typed into the login, there is the user/group ID number, and there is the home directory, and those don't necessarily have to have 1-to-1 correspondence. Please ignore this footnote if it confuses you.)