Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:26:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman <todd@wank.necropolis.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD partitions...nevermind Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907221725220.32433-100000@wank.necropolis.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907221208190.32433-100000@wank.necropolis.org>
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Nevermind. This machine was upgraded from 3.0 and I did not put a new sysinstall on it... Thanks. - Todd On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Todd Backman wrote: > > I have added a new cheetah 18gb hd to one of my machines. /sysinstall > tells me that no hard drives are installed (I will deal with that problems > later...) which is not correct as I allready have a 4.5 cheetah running > the OS on for 4months. The dmesg shows both harddrives as da0 and da1 but > in df I show the following: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0s1a 127023 24145 92717 21% / > /dev/sd0s1e 127023 1036 115826 1% /tmp > /dev/sd0s1h 3608636 953871 2366075 29% /usr > /dev/sd0s1f 127023 2566 114296 2% /var > /dev/sd0s1g 63503 1 58422 0% /var/mail > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > notice that the da0 HD is showing up as sd0????? The kernel is compiled > for da0. > > (The above was just my thinking aloud...) ;^) > > > Question: How do I make the 18gb have only 1 FreeBSD partiton? I followed > the examples in the handbook but can't seem to get rid of the 4 > partitons... > > I have used: camcontrol cmd -n da -u 1 -v -t 7200 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" > and this seems to only format slice 4. (I do not want to assume changing > "4 0 0 0 0 0" to "X 0 0 0 0 0" will format that slice. > > spiner# fdisk da1 > ******* Working on device /dev/rda1 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 108,(unknown) > start 1819044972, size 1819044972 (888205 Meg), flag 6c > beg: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108; > end: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108 > The data for partition 2 is: > sysid 108,(unknown) > start 1819044972, size 1819044972 (888205 Meg), flag 6c > beg: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108; > end: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108 > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 108,(unknown) > start 1819044972, size 1819044972 (888205 Meg), flag 6c > beg: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108; > end: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108 > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 1, size 35551844 (17359 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0; > end: cyl 164/ sector 63/ head 254 > > > Thanks in advance! > > - Todd > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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