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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:45:23 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Disk Partitioning (was Clearing /var/mail)
Message-ID:  <19981016104523.M468@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3626BD73.6434@echidna.com>; from Graeme Tait on Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:28:51PM -0700
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On Thursday, 15 October 1998 at 20:28:51 -0700, Graeme Tait wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>> <snipped extensively>
>>>
>>>> They all look allocated to me, they just have little in common with
>>>> the original idea.  But I disagree strongly with the approach.
>>>
>>> Are not cylinders 389-553 of da0 unallocated to any filesystem?
>>
>> Oops.  Missed them.
>
>
> The question is, is there some way to allocate those cylinders (given 7 partitions are
> now defined on this disk) without major trauma. I would like them to be part of the /usr
> filesystem.

No.  You'd have to remove /usr and all the partitions beyond.  That's
all except da0s1a and da0s1b.  If you do that, you should just make
one large partition and put everything in there.

Greg

>>>>> As installed, it became:
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> # Device              Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
>>>>> /dev/da0s1b           none            swap    sw              0       0
>>>>> /dev/da1s1b           none            swap    sw              0       0
>>>>> /dev/da0s1a           /               ufs     rw              1       1
>>>>> /dev/da0s1h           /tmp            ufs     rw              2       2
>>>>> /dev/da0s1e           /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
>>>>> /dev/da1s1e           /usr/obj        ufs     rw,noauto,async,noatime 2 2
>>>>> /dev/da0s1g           /usr/ports      ufs     rw,noauto,async,noatime 2 2
>>>>> /dev/da0s1f           /usr/src        ufs     rw,noauto,async,noatime 2 2
>>>>> /dev/da0s1d           /var            ufs     rw              2       2
>>>>> /dev/cd0c             /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       2       2
>>>>> proc                  /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ...
>>>>> 8 partitions:
>>>>> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>>>>   a:   409600        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 25*)
>>>>>   b:   524288   409600      swap                              # (Cyl.   25*- 58*)
>>>>>   c:  8888924        0    unused        0     0               # (Cyl.    0 - 553*)
>>>>>   d:   409600  5849088    4.2BSD        0     0     0         # (Cyl.  364*- 389*)
>>>>>   e:  3072000   933888    4.2BSD        0     0     0         # (Cyl.   58*- 249*)
>>>>>   f:   512000  4005888    4.2BSD        0     0     0         # (Cyl.  249*- 281*)
>>>>>   g:   716800  4517888    4.2BSD        0     0     0         # (Cyl.  281*- 325*)
>>>>>   h:   614400  5234688    4.2BSD        0     0     0         # (Cyl.  325*- 364*)
>>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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