From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 0:28:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6ED437B405 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:28:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maile.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA18SVt06707 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:28:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24216 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:28:29 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 29647 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Nov 2001 08:28:28 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:28:28 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Wayne Lubin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating partitions in slices. Message-ID: <20011101092828.A29618@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Wayne Lubin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011101081948.73854.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011101081948.73854.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:19:48AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > I know that to make a slice I use fdisk, or at least I > think that is so :), tell me if I am wrong. What I > want to know is what command is used to create > partitions inside of a slice? The freebsd install > program calls the portion of the install process that > creates the partitions within slices "disklabel". So I > looked at the disklabel command in the man pages but > it did not seem to be what I was looking for. I also > looked at newfs, and again did not seem to be the one. > So I tried, but now I give up and need your help. 'disklabel' is the command you are looking for. As an alternative that is a bit easier to use you can use 'sysinstall' to create/modify both slices and partitions just as you did when you first installed FreeBSD. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message