Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 18:47:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jesus A. Mora Marin" <amora@obelix.cica.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a second freebsd slice Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960903184439.223F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609030831.KAA09370@obelix.cica.es>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jesus A. Mora Marin wrote: > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=525 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=525 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 0 is: > sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) > start 63, size 1056321 (515 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 261/ sector 63/ head 63 > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) > start 1620864, size 491904 (240 Meg), flag 80 > beg: cyl 402/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 523/ sector 63/ head 63 > The data for partition 2 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 1056384, size 564480 (275 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 262/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 401/ sector 63/ head 63 > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > > I wanna get rid of the Linux slice and create a second slice for FreeBSD. The > questions are? > 1) Is this possible? Certainly. You'll have to watch the referenced slice in the canocial name (wd0s?a), but you should be able to work it no problem. > 2) If so, is needed to use disklabel for anything? Or I must simply use fdisk > to delete the Linux slice and create a new FreeBSD slice, and newsf then? Any > caveat to keep in mind? You'll need to add your new slice to the disklabel so you have a way of referencing it. (ie make it wd0f or whatever is available) I'm not sure how to do this (disklabel -e?). Perhaps someone with experience can jump in and right us both. > Er, BTW, FreeBSD version is 2.2-960326SNAP. You're a bit behind the times. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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