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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu!pauls From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Disklabel Date: 26 Nov 1992 22:01:29 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1f3hfpINN1r0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu OK, some kind person reminded me that I could just do a regular install and then shrink the root partition with disklabel. I did that, no problem but now I want to add an additional partition (and no, I'm not trying to call it wd0d) but no matter what I do, it always reports "warning: unused partition <x>" and then when I read disklabel again, all of my editing of the new partition has been deleted. I tried just doing it, and then running newfs, but it always reports "/dev/rwd0<x> device not configured" which must be pointing to my failure to disklabel it properly. All I want to do is make one partition (~60Mb) for the entire system, and then another one for user files, including ftp. This is what I am doing: disklabel -e wd0 then inserting a line in the partition data section (have tried putting it so that cylinders run contiguously through the new partition, and also so that partition letters run continuously -- doesn't seem to make a difference). I have tried calling the new partition "unused" or "4.2BSD" -- when I did the latter I just gave it the same filesize specs (etc) as wd0a. I sort of assumed that I should just call it unused and let newfs decide what to call it when the filesystem is installed, but anyway, neither of those resulted in different outcomes. Then I tried newfs rwd0<x> and got the error mentioned above. I also found that fdisk utility, which always says that there is nothing on the partition table (not very useful) but the drive is bootable, so I know that is not true. Paul Southworth | ftp ftp.css.itd.umich.edu (Not speaking for) | Political Archives in /poli Information Technology Division | Writable incoming directory on: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | redspread.css.itd.umich.edu <Representing myself. Everything I say is for educational use only.>