From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 30 06:28:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA18527 for current-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 06:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA18518 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 06:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id GAA05838 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 06:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max14-161.HiWAAY.net by fly.HiWAAY.net; (5.65/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id AA12828; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:26:34 -0500 Message-Id: <3226EBBC.446B9B3D@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:25:16 -0500 From: Steve Price X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: Problem with partition size on IDE drive and -current References: <199608300702.JAA29378@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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