From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 14:18:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BF815173 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:18:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA23458; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:40:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:40:48 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bernie Courtney Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Partition In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991104171212.0338be80@bsd.z100.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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