From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 18:55:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAE9537B417 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:55:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7025 invoked by uid 100); 8 Nov 2001 02:55:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15337.62497.198539.462560@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:55:29 -0600 To: Benjamin Franks Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: post-install partition/slice question In-Reply-To: <47135928@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Benjamin Franks types: > I have a single IDE hard drive in my system. Upon install of FreeBSD I > did not allocate the entire drive for BSD, but used half of it for the > freebsd slice (which is simply partitioned with /, /usr/, swap). I'd like > to now convert the remaining, unused portion of the drive into another > slice that I can access through freebsd. If I use the partition tool > through /stand/sysinstall to create a second slice from the unused > space--and partition it--will I damage my initial freebsd slice? Aside > from mounting the new partitions, do I need to do anything else with boot > managers, sector 0, etc.? First, you don't need to do anything but mount the new partitions once you get them created. If you edit only that slice, the other slice should be fine. The one thing to watch out for is mangling the MBR. Make sure you leave it alone while working on the new slice. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message