From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 22:14:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2402516A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:14:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA7D143D49 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:14:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 12114 invoked by uid 502); 27 Sep 2005 22:14:09 -0000 Received: from dsl-12-178-99-132.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@12.178.99.132) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2005 22:14:09 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 12.178.99.132 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl-12-178-99-132.ywave.com Message-ID: <4339C430.4000007@ywave.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:14:08 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050924) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Clark References: <20050927203227.94E09C02DF@mra04.ch.as12513.net> In-Reply-To: <20050927203227.94E09C02DF@mra04.ch.as12513.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tried everything to create a new slice... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:14:11 -0000 Paul Clark wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a 6gb slice on a 10gb drive. I want to make use of the unused 4gb by > creating a new > slice in it and mounting /home on it. > > If I use sysinstall in multi or single user mode it says: "ERROR: Unable to > write data to > disk ad0!" > > I have tried using the live cd but the keyboard map is wrong (I have no way > of inputting a /) > which makes it impossible to load sysinstall. > > How can I create a new slice? > Also, will setting the mount point as /home automatically cause it to appear > in the place of > the symlink to /usr/home that is currently there or will there be something > more that I have > to do? > > Thanks for any help. > > Paul > I've used the regular install disk to do this before. Just boot up on it, but instead of selecting install select configure -> fdisk, make your changes and press "w" (it not a visible option but it still works). Then configure -> label using the same hidden "w" option. Or is this what you tried already? HTH, Micah