From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 1:55: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55D8637B66C for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 01:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 41553 invoked by uid 100); 7 Oct 2000 08:54:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14814.58595.584759.705381@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 03:54:59 -0500 (CDT) To: media@ct1.nai.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: obtaining partition information?? In-Reply-To: <11457865@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" 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 X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG media@ct1.nai.net writes: > I'm following up my own question, with another question :) > > If I boot from the 4.1 CD-ROM I can go into stand/sysinstall and the choose > upgrade. However this brings me to another "fdisk" utility which does not > show an existing FreeBSD partition!! I don't know why -- I would just like > to use my old slices. I would think changing the slices would erase any > other data I have. Besides, people on this list have suggested that the > removal of the bad block scan in 4.1 is the reason why I cannot install it > directly in the first place. > > Regardless, UPGRADE.TXT says that I should make a note of my mount points > before I upgrade. If I enter "cat /etc/fstab" I can see my mount points, > but it does not tell me how large my slices are, so that I can re-enter the > same information into the disk editor. Where can I get this information so > that I can keep my slices the same size?? fdisk will list the slices. disklabel will show you the partitions in a slice.