From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 09:16:54 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 12D561065672 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:16:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pdegoeje@service2media.com) Received: from s2m-is-001.service2media.com (rev-130-102.virtu.nl [217.114.102.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B058FC13 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pieter-dev-linux.localnet ([10.0.1.3] RDNS failed) by s2m-is-001.service2media.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:16:51 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje Organization: Service2Media To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:16:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-17-generic; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) References: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002031016.50645.pieter@service2media.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2010 09:16:51.0166 (UTC) FILETIME=[9EAB17E0:01CAA4B1] Cc: Steve Franks Subject: Re: 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 09:16:54 -0000 On Wednesday 03 February 2010 03:59:15 Steve Franks wrote: > 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. sade(8) is the standalone version of sysinstall's partitioning subroutine. Also, if you're running a reasonably recent version of FreeBSD, you might want to take a look at gpart(8) which can do slicing and labeling (and a whole bunch of other disk partitioning related stuff). Regards, Pieter > '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