Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:43:20 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Discussion List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Expanded Hard Drive Message-ID: <369D75E8.B31393A8@seattleu.edu> References: <369D331C.E497C85@boothman.easynet.co.uk>
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Andrew Boothman wrote: > > Hello. > > I'll start at the beginning. I recently bought a new 3.5GB hard drive, > but unfortunately my 3 year old Gateway 2000 AMI BIOS would not > recognize > the new drive. I was forced to put the drive in 'Legacy BIOS' mode, > which tricked the BIOS into thinking that it was a 2GB drive. > > When this drive was working I installed FreeBSD, and told it to use the > whole drive, but not to go into dangerously dedicated mode. > > Now I've flash upgraded by PC's BIOS, and it is correctly recognizing it > as a 3.5GB drive. However, FreeBSD is still using just the first 2GB and > I would like it to use the full drive. (Minus the tiny bit left at the > front which I think is left for a possible later boot manager). > > How should I proceed? Can I simply use the 'whole drive' option and > resize the existing slice to fill the whole drive? How does the effect > the FreeBSD partitions/labels? Should I create a new slice and create > new partitions inside it and mount them seperatly (this would be my > least preferred option)? > > Many thanks! > -- > Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> > http://www.boothman.easynet.co.uk/andrew/ > Do you what the UK government to have access to the nation's > encrypted files? http://www.stand.org.uk/ Take a stand! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I would simply take the extra space and newfs it and mount it wherever needed. That would be easiest. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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