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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!decuac!vfofu1.dco.dec.com!darryl From: darryl@vfofu1.dco.dec.com (Darryl Wagoner) Subject: Re: Disklabel Message-ID: <1992Nov29.234515.23057@decuac.dec.com> Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: vfofu1.dco.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1f3hfpINN1r0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 23:45:15 GMT Lines: 24 Paul Southworth (pauls@css.itd.umich.edu) wrote: : 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 Can you really do this safely? I am have about the same problem. I don't consider myself a novice on kernel hacking. But I can get disklabel from the fixed disk to do anything useful. I have a 330 meg IDE WD drive and would like to use 10 meg for root, 30 meg for swap and the rest for /usr. Does /etc/disttab need to be updated for my disk? My first plan was to make a small root install it and then use disklabel to make it more parition. I also try the instruction in FAQ 1.04 for real partition and it just hung while trying to boot. I am not sure why, I even used a known working kernel with all the patches installed. This is the only thing I have found really wrong with the installation. I think it is a great system. -darryl darryl@sai.com