Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:01:21 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Vittorio <v.demartino2@virgilio.it> Subject: Re: Defining a new slice Message-ID: <200502170701.21390.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200502171308.59255.v.demartino2@virgilio.it> References: <200502171308.59255.v.demartino2@virgilio.it>
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On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote: > As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means > of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3). > Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!) > and I want to transform them into UFS partitions. > > How can I do it from a console? > Could you point me to an explanatory web-page I was unable to find > googling? > > A step by step explanation would be highly apptreciated. > > Ciao > Vittorio Good news: You can still use sysinstall from the console after installation. As root, execute '/stand/sysinstall'. Select 'Index' from the menu. From there you can select various administrative tasks, including the creating partitions and disklabel-ing. Note: When you created slices and using disklabel during installation, you entered 'q' to quit rather than 'w' for write. When doing these tasks post-installation, you will need to use 'w' for write. Therefore, be very careful of the changes you make prior to pressing 'w'. Have fun, Andrew Gould
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