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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!Frankfurt.Germany.EU.net!Stuttgart.Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4vl9jv$6s8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4vid6o$12il@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)