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? Message-ID: <B6BD4FAE-B8CC-43F8-8DC3-D7FCD6A2FC9B@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4EC52908.50000@FreeBSD.org> References: <20111116224604.6403be5a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4EC4D537.4050704@FreeBSD.org> <20111117124742.50779e7a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4EC4F868.9020901@FreeBSD.org> <4EC52908.50000@FreeBSD.org>
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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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