Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:10:22 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help with gpart Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210312055420.4527@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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I am trying to put FreeBSD on an HP laptop. The use up all the partitions to I
deleted the least useful one, shrunk the windows partition and tried to add
freeBSD.
gpart show:
=> 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 1985 - free - (992k)
2048 407552 1 ntfs [active] (199M)
409600 311951360 2 ntfs (148G)
312360960 33 - free - (16k)
312360993 283115448 4 freebsd (135G)
595476441 577575 - free - (282M)
596054016 28880896 3 ntfs (13G)
624934912 207536 - free - (101M)
I do not have any flexibility as to where #4 is. I would like to use the
9.0 installer from this point but it wants to add BSD partitions to the 282M
space.
I am not sure after much man-ing and google-ing what gpart commands are
required. I guess I could use sysinstall at this point but learning gpart seems
like a good thing. I assume I need to do something like:
gpart add set -a active -i 4 ada04 (not sure geom is correct)
gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada04
and then add the mounts. I would like
/
swap
/var 10g
/usr 20g
/home (the rest)
but am somewhat lost about the syntax and geom values. thanks for any help
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Douglas Denault
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doug@safeport.com
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