Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:58:11 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "L Goodwin" <xrayv19@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel editing to create a single partition Message-ID: <d7195cff0704211958v3f11eb48y90e5c4db35ff37e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <907596.95892.qm@web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <907596.95892.qm@web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On 21/04/07, L Goodwin <xrayv19@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I want to dedicate the entire disk to a single FreeBSD partition ("da1s1a"), and
> am a little confused about editing partitions via "bsdlabel -e <slicename>".
>
> Prior to editing, it looks like this:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # /dev/da1s1:
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 17908300 16 unused 0 0
> c: 17908316 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I gather that I should change the following field values for "c:":
> fstype: 4.2BSD
> fsize: 2048
> bsize: 16384
>
> Questions:
> 1) Do I change the "size" value for "a:" or leave at current size?
NO
> 2) Do I leave the "c:" line alone (in place) and if YES does
> its "size" and "offset" values need to be edited?
Leave it alone.
>
> If someone could show me what it should look like when done, I'd appreciate it.
>
> When I leave the "c:" entry in place, I get /dev/da1s1a and /dev/da1s1c in /dev/.
> Should I delete the "c:" entry? Here's what I have now:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # /dev/da1s1:
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 17908300 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384
> c: 17908316 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Don't edit the bsdlabel at all, just:
# newfs -U /dev/da1s1a
and it will automatically fill out the fsize, bsize, and bps/cpg
fields. You can then add a line to fstab, mount it, fill it with
text files containing the word "corn" ever and over.
c: should nearly never be touched, and definitely never in
the course of simply setting up a disk for use.
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