Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:54:22 -0400 From: "Michael E. Jaskowiak" <skovian@interpath.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I want to use only part of an IDE drive Message-ID: <3799D39E.47BDFBFF@interpath.com>
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Hello,
I have a bunch of 350 meg drives that I want to use. I have a
custom kernel that will use a MFS for all the standard system operations
and the executables have been compressed with crunchgen. When I use the
whole drive, the kernel boots and expands into the MFS and then the hard
drive gets unmounted. This computer has 384 megs RAM. 320 of it is the
/home partition when it gets mounted as a MFS, about 15 for the system
MFS, and the rest doing the traditional RAM thing. When I shutdown the
computer, I want to tar the /home partition to the HDD. However, I
don't want to put it on a UFS, I want to tar it to a raw file system.
How can I use command line functions to format only about 15 megs as a
bootable file system and leave the rest raw? Thanks for all your help.
Michael
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