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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
> 
> 



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