From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 02:59:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A095C106566B for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 02:59:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com (mail-pz0-f202.google.com [209.85.222.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAA38FC16 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 02:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so853926pzk.7 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:59:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=q33V+ebpDH+mpIYnqWCRPYwpQowuc+TyZb6zccFBlrE=; b=I6mwF9sY6HU37P9Vh9+iaD7YZCzGZ2keh8QJ5ivRakd1PCuBwWL5gUCyBu5Z4Tf/3T K/SDDvCa7nZJuTae09DIpFcavgovx8qnYV65y7xikIce6pLSKUS1PPiVfSPVnpkG7GZM FOi+5G2uBZbW5IOoybHiGopsIZmcWPVuFdTYE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=KGHHcvuBtE3L6bHp1PtNzpPCo4ilq7sGvYk1hOjqZZXlPpXOS3J15W+goDfrmDWVEZ qdW5j2pIVYv8WpjNK0NRE/c0c1zc698IsEczZs64zoD0oyrMGPEtZfAIwpfiVoqji1+J r6bRNtuZVOTBaWj1Txu2VIdikjsnViwg797Uk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.59.18 with SMTP id h18mr4675007wfa.27.1265165956030; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:59:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:59:15 -0700 Message-ID: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> From: Steve Franks To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:59:16 -0000 On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a &%^#& and read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice tui. 'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk. I see in the handbook, this is alluded to, but some intermediate level between begginer and expert (bsdlabel just strikes me as way too easy to trash the disk I'm running off of while trying to make a backup), would be nice...512M just won't fit the kernel+symbols. Steve