From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 15:28:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EB116A423 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:28:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shiemstra@h2.com) Received: from hermes.h2web.com (mx1.h2web.com [67.132.72.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 002BE43D45 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:28:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shiemstra@h2.com) Received: (qmail 20110 invoked by uid 1011); 29 Mar 2006 10:28:08 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO hanky) (192.168.1.3) by hermes.h2web.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2006 10:28:08 -0500 From: "Scott Hiemstra" To: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:30:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcZTRasygyX7yGISTIqD+jrg0SKs3g== Message-Id: <20060329152813.002BE43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Add partition to existing disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:28:14 -0000 I have an existing system which I cannot reinstall and sysinstall seems like too much of a wizard to use on a well running existing system. When I built the system 2 years ago I decided to leave about 25GB of unpartitioned space for future unknown projects, I now have a use for the space but I can't for the life of me figure out exactly what steps are needed to use the space. The system is configured as follows: Dell PE 2650 with 3x36GB drives in a Hardware RAID 5 on a PERC controller 4.11-STABLE And the currect disklabel is: #disklabel aacd0s1 # /dev/aacd0s1c: type: ESDI disk: aacd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 8849 sectors/unit: 142175187 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 4096000 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 90 # (Cyl. 0 - 254*) b: 3072000 4096000 swap # (Cyl. 254*- 446*) c: 142175187 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 8849*) e: 12288000 7168000 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 446*- 1211*) f: 4096000 19456000 4.2BSD 2048 16384 90 # (Cyl. 1211*- 1466*) g: 61440000 23552000 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 1466*- 5290*) As you can see I have space available from 84992000 through 142175187. I have done similar things in Solaris and other OS's but I'm just not sure exactly what the FreeBSD steps are to utilize this space. Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks, Scott