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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Would someone give me a clue about partitioning a new disk
Date: 23 Aug 1996 21:59:27 GMT
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flash@EECS.Lehigh.EDU (Stephen Corbesero) wrote:

> I just added a scsi drive (Seagate 2GB Barracuda) on an Adaptec 2940
> controller to a working freebsd system.  I have no problem doing a
> newfs on the entire drive, but I can't seem to figure out how to
> partition it into smaller pieces and be able to run newfs on those
> pieces.

So you apparently do already have a disklabel on it?

In this case, try

	disklabel -e sd1

to edit the partitioning.  Leave the `c' partition alone, it is magic
and must cover the entire FreeBSD slice (or disk for a non-sliced
disk).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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