Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:28:28 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating partitions in slices. Message-ID: <20011101092828.A29618@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20011101081948.73854.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011101081948.73854.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:19:48AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > I know that to make a slice I use fdisk, or at least I > think that is so :), tell me if I am wrong. What I > want to know is what command is used to create > partitions inside of a slice? The freebsd install > program calls the portion of the install process that > creates the partitions within slices "disklabel". So I > looked at the disklabel command in the man pages but > it did not seem to be what I was looking for. I also > looked at newfs, and again did not seem to be the one. > So I tried, but now I give up and need your help. 'disklabel' is the command you are looking for. As an alternative that is a bit easier to use you can use 'sysinstall' to create/modify both slices and partitions just as you did when you first installed FreeBSD. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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