Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 21:08:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sergios <sergios@hol.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help on newfs and a new partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961004210436.1372C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961004185445.00906ef0@prometheus.hol.gr>
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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Sergios wrote: > please somebody help me. I have a 700 Mb free space on wd1 and I want to move > /usr/local there. with other unices I have made a mount <mynewpartition> > /mnt and > (cd /usr/local; tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt; tar xfv -) That'll work once the filesystem exists. > but I read the handbook and the faq and still cannot understand why a simple > newfs /dev/wd1s2 does not work......what is disklabel and why should I use > it? isnt there a simpler way? this /etc/disk* stuff is worse than editing a > termcap;-) Then don't. Use the 'auto' disktype. 'disklabel' is a program that manages the BSD 'partition table' as it were. You have to have a disklabel (which contains various disk info and the actual partitioning of the slice) before you can newfs it because you newfs by partition. Take a look at the disklabel(8) man page for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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