From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 30 1:15: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCCA37BC4C for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.106]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:19:15 -0700 Message-ID: <390BEB6C.79264DFC@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:14:36 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Noor Dawod Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitions? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Noor Dawod wrote: > > Hello, > > How can I create new partitions on a living system? I have a 4.0-STABLE > system. > (sysinstall says there are no disks, thus I cannot use it) Sure you can. When it presents a menu, choose configure. Then fdisk and label, which ever one (s) you need to use. It works better if you have built systinstall so you don't get the signal 11. The thing is that if you have everything allocated, you are going to have to change something. A lot of times a "ln -s" is just about as good. There is a lot that you can do in single use mode that you can do with processes running. I moved /tmp and /var out at one point. Everything was copied and the link is pretty quick. I was pretty nervous but it worked. I may not work all of the time and I was prepared to start from a floppy boot if I had to Kent > > Noor > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message