From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 13:23:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C7F37B416 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 13:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0C5BC7E; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 13:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19044; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 13:23:15 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA3LLVs57693; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 13:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Wayne Lubin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions regarding slices and partitions References: <20011102202803.70464.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 03 Nov 2001 13:21:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011102202803.70464.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <23n123bleu.123@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Wayne, I read your questions and the relevant parts of the man pages and I agree that the man pages are unclear, especially about how the various options interact (or not). Sorry, but I can't answer any of them except to say that I think that enlarging your slice (if you can restore it from backup) would be worth a try. I don't see why it shouldn't work unless fdisk does something unnecessary. Or maybe it would work only if the partitions and slices are on cylinder boundaries? I know that on Linux, I messed up my partition table royally and later set it right without messing the actual partitions. You should know that the beginning of each slice has 16 sectors before the first partition (reserved for boot stuff -- see the second para. of disklabel's DIAGNOSTICS section for some confusing hints and http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/tutorials/bootloader.txt). It seems there's nothing else in slices (besides that and partitions). If you determine how those options work, please do FreeBSD a favor and submit a PR suggesting some better wording. A man page patch is nice, but not required. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message