From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 20:45:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E12616A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:45:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A4743D1D for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:45:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0SKjua16392; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:45:56 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200501282045.j0SKjua16392@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: j65nko@gmail.com Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:45:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <19861fba0501281149488bf26d@mail.gmail.com> from "J65nko BSD" at Jan 28, 2005 08:49:21 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:45:58 -0000 > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:36:08 +0101, David J. Weller-Fahy > wrote: > > I left about 26GB free on my 80GB hard drive. Having found a use for > > that space, I now want to add a partition. I've not added one by hand, > > and /stand/sysinstall gives me a 'cannot write to ...' message, so I > > want confirmation that what I'm about to do won't crump on me. ;] > > > > System is two 80GB ATA hard drives on a 'Promise PDC20269 UDMA133 > > controller' (according to dmesg), with one on each channel (both > > master). I'm running software raid using atacontrol. > > > > My current partition table follows: > > > > #v+ > > dave[tigger]~> sudo bsdlabel ar0s1 > > # /dev/ar0s1: > > 8 partitions: > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 > > b: 2097152 1048576 swap > > c: 156296322 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit > > d: 73400320 30408704 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28544 > > e: 2097152 3145728 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > f: 12582912 5242880 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > g: 12582912 17825792 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > #v- > > > > To use up the unused space, I believe I need to add the following line: > > > > #v+ > > h: 52487298 103809024 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > #v- > > > > Could someone who's done that before confirm whether that looks right? > > > > First you need to create a FreeBSD slice with fdisk, say /dev/ar0s2. > Only then you can disklabel that /dev/ar0s2. Looks to me like he wants to put the partition in the remaining space in the existing slice. It all adds up, based on the c: 156296322 size Now, if he wanted to use some disk left out of the existing slice, he would have to use fdisk to change the slice table. ////jerry > > =Adriaan= > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >