Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:58:21 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions Discussion List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Expanded Hard Drive Message-ID: <369D331C.E497C85@boothman.easynet.co.uk>
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Hello. I'll start at the beginning. I recently bought a new 3.5GB hard drive, but unfortunately my 3 year old Gateway 2000 AMI BIOS would not recognize the new drive. I was forced to put the drive in 'Legacy BIOS' mode, which tricked the BIOS into thinking that it was a 2GB drive. When this drive was working I installed FreeBSD, and told it to use the whole drive, but not to go into dangerously dedicated mode. Now I've flash upgraded by PC's BIOS, and it is correctly recognizing it as a 3.5GB drive. However, FreeBSD is still using just the first 2GB and I would like it to use the full drive. (Minus the tiny bit left at the front which I think is left for a possible later boot manager). How should I proceed? Can I simply use the 'whole drive' option and resize the existing slice to fill the whole drive? How does the effect the FreeBSD partitions/labels? Should I create a new slice and create new partitions inside it and mount them seperatly (this would be my least preferred option)? Many thanks! -- Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> http://www.boothman.easynet.co.uk/andrew/ Do you what the UK government to have access to the nation's encrypted files? http://www.stand.org.uk/ Take a stand! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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