Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 03:54:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: media@ct1.nai.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: obtaining partition information?? Message-ID: <14814.58595.584759.705381@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <11457865@toto.iv>
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media@ct1.nai.net writes: > I'm following up my own question, with another question :) > > If I boot from the 4.1 CD-ROM I can go into stand/sysinstall and the choose > upgrade. However this brings me to another "fdisk" utility which does not > show an existing FreeBSD partition!! I don't know why -- I would just like > to use my old slices. I would think changing the slices would erase any > other data I have. Besides, people on this list have suggested that the > removal of the bad block scan in 4.1 is the reason why I cannot install it > directly in the first place. > > Regardless, UPGRADE.TXT says that I should make a note of my mount points > before I upgrade. If I enter "cat /etc/fstab" I can see my mount points, > but it does not tell me how large my slices are, so that I can re-enter the > same information into the disk editor. Where can I get this information so > that I can keep my slices the same size?? fdisk will list the slices. disklabel will show you the partitions in a slice. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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