From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 13:00:53 2005 Return-Path: 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 CEB2A16A4D2 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6419F43D2F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:00:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=yoda.datawok.com) by smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1D1lH2-0007Ng-Lj; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:00:52 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:01:21 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200502171308.59255.v.demartino2@virgilio.it> In-Reply-To: <200502171308.59255.v.demartino2@virgilio.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502170701.21390.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bca7724f2221ccb1896882517fa1c56675350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 cc: Vittorio Subject: Re: Defining a new slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:00:54 -0000 On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:08 am, Vittorio wrote: > As a newbie I can create a new FreeBSD UFS partition/slice by means > of sysinstall (by the way, I installed freeBSD 5.3). > Now recently I freed some partitions devoted to M$ Windows (at last!) > and I want to transform them into UFS partitions. > > How can I do it from a console? > Could you point me to an explanatory web-page I was unable to find > googling? > > A step by step explanation would be highly apptreciated. > > Ciao > Vittorio Good news: You can still use sysinstall from the console after installation. As root, execute '/stand/sysinstall'. Select 'Index' from the menu. From there you can select various administrative tasks, including the creating partitions and disklabel-ing. Note: When you created slices and using disklabel during installation, you entered 'q' to quit rather than 'w' for write. When doing these tasks post-installation, you will need to use 'w' for write. Therefore, be very careful of the changes you make prior to pressing 'w'. Have fun, Andrew Gould