Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:00:31 -0700 From: "Joe Parks" <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: can I re-label partitions on the fly with sysinstall ? Message-ID: <F192BCFvkvq0EHZPvkC0001284f@hotmail.com>
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I have a machine with two disks, first disk has a 1gig root, then a 7gig /mnt/data partition. Second disk has a 200meg /var and 128meg swap, then a 7.5gig /mnt/data2 partition. --- I would like to start /stand/sysinstall over ssh (machine is in a different state) and split each of the two /mnt/dataX partitions into multiple 1gig /mnt/dataX partitions. So the / partition on the first disk will not change, and the /var and swap partitions on the second disk will not change - I plan on not having any downtime associated with this - I will just delete each of the two ~7 gig data partitions and make 7 ~1gig data partitions in their place. --- So first off, is this reasonable ? Can I safely use /stand/sysinstall on a running machine to relabel the disks ? Second, will this new labeling scheme be in effect immediately after exiting /stand/sysinstall, or will I need to reboot ? Will I need to manaully edit things like /etc/fstab ? Or will sysinstal l do this for me. Third, how should I _commit_ the change ? Should I press 'w' in the label screen (for write) and then just quit out of sysinstall ? Or is it more elaborate than that ? Finally, I started /stand/sysinstall, went to 'custom' and went to 'label' and was surprised to see in the "mount point" column for each partition the word "none" - why does the custom label function in sysinstall not know the label names of my partitions ? Any other comments/suggestions appreciated. thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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