Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:39:02 -0500 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: "'FreeBSD'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: adding unused disk space Message-ID: <20060127193840.1203E43D5D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, When trying to add a new partition to an already existing disk slice on = FreeBSD 5.4, are these the proper procedures to follow: lets say we have: /dev/ad4s1a 507630 56104 410916 12% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad4s1d 507630 12 467008 0% /tmp /dev/ad4s1e 10154158 1833920 7507906 20% /usr /dev/ad4s1f 6090094 40804 5562084 1% /var There is some 20GB unused space on the drive and I want to use that for = /backup, so I did: 1) sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=3D16 2) sysinstall -> Confgiure -> Disk Label -> ad4 3) I've mounted each ad4 to its proper place using 'M'=20 4) then I created the partition /backup using 'C' from the unused space = which wass assigned /dev/ad4sa1g 5) then used 'W' to write the partitions, it gave couple of errors about = busy devices..etc 6) reset sysctl: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=3D0 7) rebooted the machine and it came back fine 8) edit /etc/fstab and add=20 /dev/ad4s1g /backup ufs rw 2 2 9) reboot the machine and it fails to come back on am I missing something ? Thanks, Tamouh Hakmi
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