From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 12:12:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A5C37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 12:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g2NKBrh27629; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:11:53 +0100 (CET) To: Srinivasa rao Vempati Subject: Re: How do I get IDE disk slice info Message-ID: <1016914313.3c9ce189a1a20@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:11:53 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.160.55 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 > Hi, > Using dmegs i'm able to get IDE disk id's and their manufacturer info like > size. > But I partitioned IDE disk s.t. that it consists 2 slices , > now my problem is getting slice information like slice size .. > here one thing is I didn't formatted that slice See man fdisk, man disklabel & man newfs for the gory details. You should also be able to do the trick (i.e. manage your disks) in a more 'graphical' fashion via sysinstall. You can find sysinstall-related material (with screenshots ;-)) in the on-line handbook -- viz. in chapter 2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-sysinstall.html HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message