Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:02:08 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: adding unused disk space Message-ID: <20060127200208.GA1094@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060127193840.1203E43D5D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20060127193840.1203E43D5D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On 2006-01-27 14:39, "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When trying to add a new partition to an already existing disk slice
> on FreeBSD 5.4, are these the proper procedures to follow:
>
> lets say we have:
>
> /dev/ad4s1a 507630 56104 410916 12% /
> devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
> /dev/ad4s1d 507630 12 467008 0% /tmp
> /dev/ad4s1e 10154158 1833920 7507906 20% /usr
> /dev/ad4s1f 6090094 40804 5562084 1% /var
>
> There is some 20GB unused space on the drive and I want to use that for /backup, so I did:
>
> 1) sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
>
> 2) sysinstall -> Confgiure -> Disk Label -> ad4
>
> 3) I've mounted each ad4 to its proper place using 'M'
>
> 4) then I created the partition /backup using 'C' from the unused space which wass assigned /dev/ad4sa1g
>
> 5) then used 'W' to write the partitions, it gave couple of errors about busy devices..etc
>
> 6) reset sysctl: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0
>
> 7) rebooted the machine and it came back fine
>
> 8) edit /etc/fstab and add
> /dev/ad4s1g /backup ufs rw 2 2
>
> 9) reboot the machine and it fails to come back on
>
> am I missing something ?
Yes. Between steps (8) and (9) you should have created a filesystem on
that device:
# newfs /dev/ad4s1g
Then you can mount it as usual:
# mount /backup
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