From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 19:03:20 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 D43B616A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:03:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from weller-fahy.com (pD9FFE68D.dip.t-dialin.net [217.255.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF8543D2F for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:03:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave-lists-freebsd-questions@weller-fahy.com) Received: (qmail 878 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Jan 2005 19:03:26 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:03:26 +0100 From: "David J. Weller-Fahy" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050129190304.GA592@weller-fahy.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050128143546.GD307@weller-fahy.com> <200501281547.j0SFlju14517@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20050128234849.GF307@weller-fahy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050128234849.GF307@weller-fahy.com> X-URL-Me: http://www.weller-fahy.com X-Accept-Language: en X-Location: Germany, Gangelt, Hof Grootfeld User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: 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: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:03:20 -0000 * David J. Weller-Fahy [2005-01-29 00:49 +0100]: > > > h: 52487298 103809024 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > > > You will need to be booted in such a way as nothing on that slice > > is mounted to be able to write the new label, I believe. > > Ah! That's what I was missing. Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out > tomorrow and let the list know how it goes. I booted into single user mode, did the deed, and rebooted. All is well so far. Thanks for the tip! Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ]