From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 7:44:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isnmmp01.interpath.net (isnmmp01.interpath.net [216.48.1.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D8414D4B for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 07:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skovian@interpath.com) Received: from interpath.com ([207.59.122.6]) by isnmmp01.interpath.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA2E64 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:42:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3799D39E.47BDFBFF@interpath.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:54:22 -0400 From: "Michael E. Jaskowiak" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I want to use only part of an IDE drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a bunch of 350 meg drives that I want to use. I have a custom kernel that will use a MFS for all the standard system operations and the executables have been compressed with crunchgen. When I use the whole drive, the kernel boots and expands into the MFS and then the hard drive gets unmounted. This computer has 384 megs RAM. 320 of it is the /home partition when it gets mounted as a MFS, about 15 for the system MFS, and the rest doing the traditional RAM thing. When I shutdown the computer, I want to tar the /home partition to the HDD. However, I don't want to put it on a UFS, I want to tar it to a raw file system. How can I use command line functions to format only about 15 megs as a bootable file system and leave the rest raw? Thanks for all your help. Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message