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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:43:59 -0500
From:      Chris Carr <carrch@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IBook G4 and FreeBSD 9.0-RC2: unable to create four slices on hard drive?
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On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> 
> So, i wrote a small patch. It reserves first 14 sectors to be able
> create new partitions. Also, we can add a check that is there some free
> space to extend APM when we are trying to add new partition.
> Marcel what you think about that?
> 
> -- 
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
> <g_part_apm.diff>

Would it be easier just to re-write the whole partition table with pdisk?
If you preserve the existing start/end points, I think you should be able to create a whole new partition map with the extra partition you want in the existing free space on the disk.

-Chris 



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