Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:25:16 -0500 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: Problem with partition size on IDE drive and -current Message-ID: <3226EBBC.446B9B3D@hiwaay.net> References: <199608300702.JAA29378@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > > Dunno whether this is your problem, but creating a file system on the > `c' partition is considered no good. If you want a filesystem > covering the entire slice/disk, run disklabel -e, clone the `c' line, > add the 4.2BSD 1024 8192 numbers, and use the new partition for the > filesystem. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Yes it was. It seems that 'c' *is* a special partition that needs to stay but must remain unused. I created an 'a' partition and everything works beautifully. Thanks for the help. Steve
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