From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 9: 0:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f192.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3384F37B41A for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:00:32 -0800 Received: from 65.30.229.190 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:00:31 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.30.229.190] From: "Joe Parks" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: can I re-label partitions on the fly with sysinstall ? Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:00:31 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Dec 2001 17:00:32.0105 (UTC) FILETIME=[5354FD90:01C1908A] 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 I have a machine with two disks, first disk has a 1gig root, then a 7gig /mnt/data partition. Second disk has a 200meg /var and 128meg swap, then a 7.5gig /mnt/data2 partition. --- I would like to start /stand/sysinstall over ssh (machine is in a different state) and split each of the two /mnt/dataX partitions into multiple 1gig /mnt/dataX partitions. So the / partition on the first disk will not change, and the /var and swap partitions on the second disk will not change - I plan on not having any downtime associated with this - I will just delete each of the two ~7 gig data partitions and make 7 ~1gig data partitions in their place. --- So first off, is this reasonable ? Can I safely use /stand/sysinstall on a running machine to relabel the disks ? Second, will this new labeling scheme be in effect immediately after exiting /stand/sysinstall, or will I need to reboot ? Will I need to manaully edit things like /etc/fstab ? Or will sysinstal l do this for me. Third, how should I _commit_ the change ? Should I press 'w' in the label screen (for write) and then just quit out of sysinstall ? Or is it more elaborate than that ? Finally, I started /stand/sysinstall, went to 'custom' and went to 'label' and was surprised to see in the "mount point" column for each partition the word "none" - why does the custom label function in sysinstall not know the label names of my partitions ? Any other comments/suggestions appreciated. thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message