Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:40:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Creating a /home partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810200939160.6354-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981017122439.29505B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > I'm running low of disk space on /usr, and I decided to move /usr/home to > its own /home partition. > > I tried one thing... I did a setup of the new partition using > /stand/sysinstall, giving all the space left to /home. > > To make things clearer, I must expose my disk layout, and I must precise > that I have *no* possiblity of backup. > > fdisk:-------------------------------- > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=782 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=782 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 2 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 3072384, size 3233664 (1578 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 381/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 781/ sector 63/ head 127 > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > start 8064, size 1064448 (519 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 132/ sector 63/ head 127 > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 1072512, size 1999872 (976 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 133/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 380/ sector 63/ head 127 > --------------------------------------------- > > The last slice is the one I want to reserve to FreeBSD. The problem is > that when I used sysinstall to create the new slice, it installed it > into the first slice, /dev/wd0s1. Then the system could not boot, because > it could only find the /home partition which contained only homes, no > swap, no kernel, no "/bin". The bootloader in 2.2.x doesn't handle multiple slices that well; itpicks the first one with type 165. The new bootloader in 3.0 does, however. I'd suggest moving the system into slice 1 and do with slice 4 as you will. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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