From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 14:36:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CAD516A501 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:36:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from weller-fahy.com (pD9FFF174.dip.t-dialin.net [217.255.241.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3784E43D49 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:36:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave-lists-freebsd-questions@weller-fahy.com) Received: (qmail 40955 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Jan 2005 14:36:08 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:36:08 +0101 From: "David J. Weller-Fahy" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050128143546.GD307@weller-fahy.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-URL-Me: http://www.weller-fahy.com X-Location: Germany, Gangelt, Hof Grootfeld User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Adding a partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:36:13 -0000 I left about 26GB free on my 80GB hard drive. Having found a use for that space, I now want to add a partition. I've not added one by hand, and /stand/sysinstall gives me a 'cannot write to ...' message, so I want confirmation that what I'm about to do won't crump on me. ;] System is two 80GB ATA hard drives on a 'Promise PDC20269 UDMA133 controller' (according to dmesg), with one on each channel (both master). I'm running software raid using atacontrol. My current partition table follows: #v+ dave[tigger]~> sudo bsdlabel ar0s1 # /dev/ar0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 b: 2097152 1048576 swap c: 156296322 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 73400320 30408704 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28544 e: 2097152 3145728 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 f: 12582912 5242880 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 g: 12582912 17825792 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 #v- To use up the unused space, I believe I need to add the following line: #v+ h: 52487298 103809024 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 #v- Could someone who's done that before confirm whether that looks right? Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ]