From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 12:12:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA02848 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.yars.free.net (gemini.yars.free.net [193.233.48.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02769 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:11:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gray@localhost) by gemini.yars.free.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03785; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:09:36 +0300 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:09:36 +0300 (MSK) From: Serge Bezzubov To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: how do I change disk label? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello everybody! Here's my question I'd appreciate your help with: How do I change the disk label on FreeBSD disk? Say I'we got a large partition /serv which I want to be split into two smaller ones. I've tried using sysinstall utility which doesn't seem to actually change the partition. If disklabel shuold be used in this situation - how do I calculate the "cyl" information for the label? All other entries - sizes and offsets seem to be pretty obvious to calculate, but what about these cylinders? Thanks in advance, Serge