From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 11: 6:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cluttered.com (w024.z064002058.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.2.58.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A33C37B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Pretension.collab.net (jsd [10.10.10.3]) by cluttered.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5A6A8; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001008110432.00b292b0@lasvegas.sfo.collab.net> X-Sender: jsd@lasvegas.sfo.collab.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 11:05:33 -0700 To: David Gilbert From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: [FBSD-Q] newfs extended partition Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14816.41881.861486.408231@trooper.velocet.net> References: <200010072156.OAA23870@mail.gamespot.com> <200010072156.OAA23870@mail.gamespot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:40 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, David Gilbert wrote: >Jon> I don't want to muck around with disklabel without knowing what >Jon> I'm doing. I have backed up the data but I'd rather not disturb >Jon> the other stuff in the extended partition if possible. > >If you don't disklabel it, I believe you have to use the -v option to >newfs. nope, that doesn't work. from reading the rest of the threads it seems like it's a real pain in the butt, involving mucking around with the disklabel. i will simply burn cd's of the relevant data and then toast the entire extended partition. problem solved! thanks for all the info... -jsd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message