From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 21:20:35 2003 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 A008237B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F39343E4A for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 33434 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2003 05:20:30 -0000 Received: from 202-6-144-75.ip.adam.com.au (HELO adam.com.au) (202.6.144.75) by eden.adam.com.au with SMTP; 18 Jan 2003 05:20:30 -0000 Message-ID: <3E28E47A.9080706@adam.com.au> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:52:02 +1030 From: Brian Astill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020926 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Larger Hard Drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 want to move my FBSD partitions to one larger HD. Shouldn't be hard. ;-) The system recognises my new HD at ad2 ad0: 8063MB [16383/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 ad1: 8056MB [16368/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66 ad2: 19470MB [39560/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 acd0: CD-RW at ata1-slave PIO4 BUT when I try to initialise ad2 ... :-( root@BAPhD ~ #fdisk -BI ad2 ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* root@BAPhD ~ #Jan 18 15:21:19 BAPhD /kernel: ad2: cannot find label (no disk label) Jan 18 15:21:19 BAPhD /kernel: ad2s1: cannot find label (no disk label) root@BAPhD ~ #disklabel -w ad2 auto disklabel: No space left on device root@BAPhD ~ #Jan 18 15:21:52 BAPhD /kernel: ad2: cannot find label (no disk label) Jan 18 15:21:52 BAPhD /kernel: ad2s1: cannot find label (no disk label) Jan 18 15:21:52 BAPhD /kernel: ad2: cannot find label (no disk label) Jan 18 15:21:52 BAPhD /kernel: ad2s1: cannot find label (no disk label) I looked at the drive using Partition Magic v7 (using Windoze - ouch!) which recognised the drive as FBSD/386. Thought I would change this to unformatted in the hope this might help, then rebooted. Same result as above. :-( At this point I thought I had better ask for help! :-) -- Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message