Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:00:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Question=answer <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Melting 2 partitions into 1, again Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717075339.14231D-100000@outpost.nada.org> In-Reply-To: <356DBD66.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
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Hi! I must thank you if haven't already for the help you gave me on partition handling. I know it's been a while but I still need your help. Remember my HD settings? On Thu, 28 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > 1000MB DOS > > > 500MB free > > > 1250MB FBSD > > > 500MB free > > > Well, I grew up the fbsd part, and it's now: 1 GB DOS 500 MB Free 1750 MB FBSD Now I wish to fit in the 500 MB that is before the FBSD. Is it a different procedure? If I would try, I would do fdisk to change to starting block, reboot as -s, do disklabel to reflect the changes. Is that OK? BTW, once I fitted the new sizes, is it possible to change the respective partition sizes in FBSD itself, later? (let's say I need more /var space?) Thanks in advance! > ok this is a dead snap. > just use (from UNIX in single user mode) > fdisk -u /dev/rwd0 > and extend the size of the BSD partition to be the > whole rest of the diskby adding the remaining blocks to the > present size of 2612736 > then reboot ( not strictly needed but.... ) > after reboot, in single user mode do: > If the device /dev/rwds2 doesn't exist in /dev. > (cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV wd0s2g) > > disklabel -r -e /dev/rwd0s2 rwd0c might work as well > > edit the 'blocks per unit field and the size of the 'c' > partition to reflect the new size. > > reboot. to single user mode again > check during boot for any unusiual errors about the disk partitions. > > let me know what disklabel and fdisk looks like after this.. > > Spidey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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