Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:01:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: How can I use 4th partition on a disk Message-ID: <199708081801.NAA04368@imdave.pr.mcs.net>
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I just replaced a disk with a new 4G drive. Here's what I want to do. Partition 1 & 2 are dos primary (100M) & dos extended (350M). Partition 3 is FreeBSD (2340M). I don't want *huge* file systems, so I sliced the FreeBSD partition into root (25M), /tmp (50M), /usr (300M) and /extra1 (2G). That makes slices a,e,f,g. (Shoot... I must have been braindead... I didn't try to see if I could have slice h,i, ...) I've still got 4G - (100M + 350M +2340M) = 1.3G remaining. I don't like having *huge* file systems because the fsck's take longer, if I lose the file system, there's more to backup, etc. I want to just create a file system in the 4th partition, rather than having /extra1 be the entire 3.3G. BUT... dos won't let me create another partition because there's already a primary and extended, and FreeBSD paniced when I created a second BSD partition during the install. How, using what fdisk, and marking it with what SYSID, can I create the 4th partition using the remainder of the disk? If I can do this, then I know I can just have FreeBSD use /dev/wd0s4. Dave Bodenstab imdave@mcs.net
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