From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 08:43:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA10025 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:43:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA10019 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14401(7)>; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:42:50 PST Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id LAA08508 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:31:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA09833; Wed, 12 Feb 97 11:31:19 EST Message-Id: <9702121631.AA09833@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: multiple slices, moving around slices Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:31:18 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do I move around a slice (I wanted to change the configuration of my disk). I have a free primary partition, in linux I did a: cat /dev/hda3 >/dev/hda4 and a copy was there... Then in system commander I booted /dev/hda4 (no problem) but it mounted the stuff in /dev/hda3... So I changed the partition type of /dev/hda3 and booted /dev/hda4 -- and it paniced (cannot find root file system). The size of the partitions and where they are encoded in the slice partition table (not sure what its called). I don't want to restart the install procedure... Also, how do I control booting if I have two slices on a single disk (is this possible? It should be). marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Don't confuse education with schooling. Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom