Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:30:49 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk? Message-ID: <200402110030.49302.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <4027C835.1040100@users.sourceforge.net> References: <4026FBA6.8030001@users.sourceforge.net> <200402092225.35217.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <4027C835.1040100@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:19, Rob wrote: > Malcolm, > > Thank you for your detailed answer to my question. > > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: > > Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically > > follow 'f' on the disk then this is not going to work -- give up > > now!!! > > How can I find that out? Is it the slice order in the disk label editor > from /stand/sysinstall : No! What you want is disklabel (see man page). On 5.x this seems to have been replaced by bsdlabel -- but I have no experience with 5.x. You can first gather the partition information; and later when you=20 decide what you want to do you can modify the table using this utility. It shows partition sizes and offsets in sectors; and assists in editing t= hese. But if you don't already know of this utility then tread very carefully. Even small fiddles if you don't know what you are doing can make it=20 almost impossible to recover any of the information in the slice. > > > Disk: ad1 Partition name: ad1s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) > > Part Mount Size Newfs > ---- ----- ---- ----- > ad1s1a <none> 100MB * > ad1s1e <none> 3100MB * > ad1s1f <none> 3100MB * > ad1s1g <none> 3100MB * > ad1s1h <none> 300MB * > ad1s1b <none> 300MB * > ad1s1d <none> 66316MB * > > > In this table f and g are back-to-front lined up. > Does that mean f physically follows g? > > > Asking a question and giving a non-existent email address is quite r= ude. > > Sorry, but I consider a potential spam risk when using a real address o= n > this publicly accessible list. The list is my communication medium and = I > monitor the list on gmane. I hope you understand. Of course spam occurs but almost everyone else on the list posts a genuin= e e-mail address. Why should you get special privileges? Malcolm Kay
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