From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 8:32:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7C537B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E1A43E42 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9QFW4V8020097 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:32:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9QFVxTj020096 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:31:59 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:31:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add space Message-ID: <20021026153159.GC19530@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021025185227.00a9c448@pop51.bellnet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021025185227.00a9c448@pop51.bellnet.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-13.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:29:01AM -0400, pippo@bellnet.ca wrote: > At 03:21 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote: > Big problem after settin up - now there are 2 active partitions - how do I > de-activate slice 1? > /stand/sysinstall (Fdisk) refused to mark just slice 2 as active even > though I checked and set it two times... :(( You shouldn't be marking the modified partition active -- it's not meant to be bootable, just some extra storage space. > This did not work until I used /stand/sysinstall to create ad0s1e (in my > case) with Label but this required a mount point - /new. Thereafter, > disklabel did work after checking with -n option first. fBut there now > seems to be a partition ad0s1a with 0 space) > Here is the problem - no partition information, hence, cannot boot - cheked > with PM and found both slice 1 (ad0s1) and slice 2 (ad0s2) are marked > active - I wonder what is going on here? > How do I fix this? > Partition magic cannot deactivate one of the slices - only way is to delete > slice 1 but that is not very productive... :(( Ouch. So just to clarify, which slice is which? ad0s1 is your original FreeBSD slice containing (amongst other stuff) the root partition on ad0s1a ad0s2 was formerly NTFS, which you deleted using PartitionMagic and are trying to convert into a second FreeBSD slice? Is that correct? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message