Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 01:09:10 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Steve Austin <indydog125@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating a disk partition Message-ID: <15336.56854.730145.196798@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <108376554@toto.iv>
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Steve Austin <indydog125@yahoo.com> types: > 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). As a general rule, you thought wrong. Unless there are administrative reasons for putting things on different partitions (i.e. - mounting parts of it read-only, or NFS export permissins, or backup strategy, or whatever ...). > 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)??? You're not hooped - you could put the stuff on a second slice, so you have ad0s1a,... ad0s1h, ad0s2a, ... for more partitions. It might be worthwhile to dump and resize things. If you're tracking 4-STABLE and have the new dirprefs code, that will get the maximum benefit from that. Alternatively, you can dump the latter of adjacent partitions, use disklabel to extend the earlier partition to include them both, then use growfs to get the new space and restore. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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