Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 08:47:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Question=answer <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Melting 2 partitions into 1 (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980528084131.255A-200000@outpost.nada.org> In-Reply-To: <356CC739.1CFBAE39@whistle.com>
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Spidey wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> >
> > For sanity, I have a WD 3.2Gb hard drive partitionned this way:
> >
> > DOS (C:) 1 Gb
> > FreeSpace: 500 Mb ?
> > FreeBSD: 1.275 Gb
> > FreeSpace: 500 Mb ?
> >
> > This is the output of partition magic...
> >
> > However, fdisk tells me that:
> >
> > Part: Type: Size:
> > 1 unused ?
> > 2 165 (FreeBSD) 1275 Mb
> > 3 6 (DOS=FAT16) 1000 Mb
> > 4 unused ?
> >
> > Is the order difference important? What is the cause of this
> > difference?
>
> partition magic is reporting the order of the partitions on the disk
> freebsd fdisk is reporting the order in the table,
> they don't have to match.
>
>
> >
> > Before making the big move, I'll make my DOS partition a little bigger
> > (See another posting to the list). I intend to use the rest of the
> > partition to the grace of FreeBSD. I have ported almost nothing and my
> > /usr boosted up to 1 Gig! Now I want to install some other stuff and I
> > feel like I will always be missing some space... Is it feasable to use a
> > 1.5 Gb partition to the sake of FreeBSD, when you use the ports to install
> > (because it imports the source, contrarly to the package method)?
>
> why not delete the source after you have compiled it?
> (make clean is your friend)
I just do "make clean"? In which dir?
> also cd /usr/ports/distfiles and rm anything you
> have already installed.
Well, all that is there is installed! I always installed via make install,
and never ported manually... These files (source & distfiles) are useless?
> > On Wed, 13 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > > you CAN do that but you have to REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
> >
> > > 0/ write down (or better, print) teh output of fdisk and disklabel
> > > for the appropriate device.
> > > 1/ boot the fixit floppy, (I presume it has fdisk, disklabel and dd)
> >
> > You _presume_... How can I know?
>
> boot the install disk
> choose the 'fixit' option
> follow instructions.
> check if said files exist.
> I don't have one around here.
>
> >
> > > 2/ copy the first 8K from the existing BSD partition to the first 8k of
> > > the Win95 partition using dd and teh raw devices
> > > ( dd if=/dev/rwd0s2 of=/dev/rwd0s1 count=16)
> >
> > Actually, it will be a DOS partition I'll be bumming space from...
>
>
> you didn't say how you wat this to end up
> what is really on the disk is:
>
> 4MB free
Why is that 4Mb alone and free?
> 1000MB DOS
> 500MB free
> 1250MB FBSD
> 500MB free
>
> You say you want to grow the DOS by some amount.
> use partition magic for that first before any other changes..
> We need that completed before we go any further.
This is now:
1 Gb DOS
500 Mb Extended DOS
1.275 Gb FreeBSD
500 Mb +- FreeSpace
> the rest we can do from a running freebsd system (gasp)
> send me the output of freebsd's fdisk after you've done that.
It's in attach...
Spidey
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******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=782 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=782 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 5,(Extended DOS)
start 2056320, size 1016064 (496 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 255/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 380/ sector 63/ head 127
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 3072384, size 2612736 (1275 Meg), flag 80
beg: cyl 381/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 704/ sector 63/ head 127
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 8064, size 2048256 (1000 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 254/ sector 63/ head 127
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
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