Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:40:48 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Bernie Courtney <courtney@bsd.z100.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911041438120.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991104171212.0338be80@bsd.z100.com>
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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bernie Courtney wrote: > Hey everyone... > > When I set up my BSD 3.2 box it installed everything on a 2GB hard drive- > just after that, before I put it online, I thought that I would need more > drive space, so I ran Symantec's Ghost program and cloned the 2 GB drive > onto an 8GB HDD. The machine works fine, the only problem is that the bsd > box only see's the original 2 GB of space...how can I tell it that there is > another 6GB out there if it only looked for it :-)?? The "post install config" in /stand/sysinstall is good for partitioning a disk in FreeBSD. run /stand/sysinstall, choose: x x c Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD x x then: x x F Fdisk The disk Slice (PC-style partition) Editor x x add a new partition, then exit the screen and choose: x x L Label The disk Label editor x x add your new slices and hit 'W' to write out, make sure you specify an empty directory so sysinstall can mount your new disk. don't forget to update /etc/fstab -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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