Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:46:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I use 4th partition on a disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808114353.2056H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199708081801.NAA04368@imdave.pr.mcs.net>
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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dave Bodenstab wrote: > 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. I'm surprised you didn't allocate up the rest of the slice at install time. Were you expecting to use that 1.3gb for something else? > 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. During install, yes, it would get mad. But after the fact you shouldn't have a problem. > 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. from fdisk(8), the sysid for FreeBSD is 165 (0xA5). I don't think I put slicing in there, but http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html should help you out with the disklabel/newfs step. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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