From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 22:57:09 2005 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 4ED2616A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:57:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453E843D46 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:57:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 21112 invoked by uid 207); 28 Jul 2005 22:57:06 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.3):. Processed in 0.629171 secs); 28 Jul 2005 22:57:06 -0000 Received: from dialup3.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.3]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 28 Jul 2005 22:57:05 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6SMv2Cr051222; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:57:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j6SMv2Cw051205; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:57:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:57:01 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: dpk Message-ID: <20050728225701.GB46755@gothmog.gr> References: <20050719145822.W23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <441x5tk3e9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050720064637.Q23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <20050721100327.GA16179@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050728154356.A79761@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050728154356.A79761@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> Cc: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystem woes 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: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:57:09 -0000 On 2005-07-28 15:52, dpk wrote: >On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Are you trying to start from scratch, or just making changes to the >> existing table? If it's the second, then try the -u option: >> >> # fdisk -u /dev/da0 >> >> This should give you a chance to interactively change the partition >> table of the disk. If this fails too, please show us the exact command >> line you used and the exact error messages. > > Unfortunately I can't run fdisk -u, if that command will wipe out the > partition table, since / is also on the array, just in a smaller > partition. It won't wipe away the table. It will just let you edit the existing table interactively, through a series of questions like: - Do you want to edit partition 1? - Do you want to edit partition 2? - Do you want to edit partition 3? - Do you want to edit partition 4? - Do you want to change the active partition? - Do you want to save your changes to the disk?