From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 6 11:58:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web20407.mail.yahoo.com (web20407.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E0ED37B405 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:58:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20011106195816.56982.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [207.34.126.10] by web20407.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:58:16 PST Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:58:16 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Austin Subject: creating a disk partition To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought I was being smart by not allocating all of a 20Gb drive. I used 9Gb in 6 different partitions - (7 including swap). These were assigned on installation as partitions a, d, e, f, g & h (and of course, swap). I figured that when I needed more space in the future, I would create another partition, and mount it under some portion of the file system where needed. Alright, so I ran out of space in /usr, and my /usr/local is taking up most of the 2Gb partition. So, off I go to create another partition - this time 6Gb and (eventually) mount it under /usr/local (moving everything over and back). I found a manual on www.freebsd.org that suggested to use sysinstall to create more partitions. I go off and do that, however, when I create the new partition, it create it as "X" instead what I am expecting to be something like "ad0s1i" or "j" or some letter. I say to myself: "self, that's odd, but the manual says to hit escape repeatedly to get out of sysinstall and it will automatically build the new filesystem after that" The only problem is that the new fs doesn't get built. In fact, I get an error that /dev/X doesn't exist... Now, am I hooped - meaning I have to go re-install to create larger partitions from the onset, or am I doing something wrong (or missing a post on this)??? Thanks for any help you can provide! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message