Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:51:40 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need help setting up a new partition Message-ID: <d7195cff0602101951v53dd0a7fo54b11a0a63add958@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060209052049.10591.qmail@web60011.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060209044354.30052.qmail@web60019.mail.yahoo.com> <20060209052049.10591.qmail@web60011.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2/8/06, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote: > > > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second > > > > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am willing > > to > > > > sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am > > > > lacking space there. I'm just not sure how to proceed. . . . > Actually I changed a sysctl setting (sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=3D16) an= d I > was able to delete/create the partition. Now I am stuck trying to create > the slices. It keeps telling me the mount points do not exist when they > do. I rebooted after creating them. > Command line tools are much easier. dd if=3Ddev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0s2 bs=3D1024k count=3D1 glabel label -v l0 /dev/ad0s2 bsdlabel -w /dev/label/l0 bsdlabel -e /dev/label/l0 newfs -U -O2 -b 16384 -f 2048 /dev/label/l0[ad-g] mount . . . echo 'geom_label_load=3D"yes"' >> /boot/loader.conf glabel is pretty spiffy, you can then dispense with the worry about having to change your /etc/fstab every time you move a hard drive, if you move hard drives from controller to controller, tossing notions of "fixed" disks to the wind. Note well: I have no idea how well geom_label and boot devices work together. Note also: sysinstall is silly for standard tasks like disk slicing and partitioning, and as well, it's not very geom-aware. -- --
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