Am Sonntag, 13. März 2005 05:35 schrieb Chris: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >On Saturday, 12 March 2005 at 21:09:47 -0600, Chris wrote: > >>Heya folks - here's my issue; I removed a OS from my drive and that freed > >>up 10 gig. I wish to "merge" the free 10 gig into my FreeBSD file system. > >> > >>Here's what she looks like via fdisk: > >> > >>Disk name: ad1 FDISK Partition > >>Editor > >>DISK Geometry: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors > >> (76316MB) > >> > >>Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype > >> > >> 0 10236 20964824 - 12 unused 0 > >> 20964825 66079 156296384 ad1s1 8 freebsd 165 > >>156296385 2 156301487 - 12 unused 0 > >> > >> > >>So - what do I need to do to take the 1st line and merge it into the > >>existing system? > > > >That depends on what you want to do with the space. It would be > >relatively complicated (but not impossible) to merge it into an > >existing file system. If you just want to create a another file > >system, just create a new partition in the partition editor, set it to > >tye 165, then in the label editor create one (or just possibly more > >than one) file system. Both here and in the label editor, use the W > >command to actually write the stuff to disk. > > > >>Sorry for the formatting > > > >Looks fine to me. > > > >Greg > > I assume doing this while in single user mode. Otherwise I am getting an > error: unable to write to disk.
If you want to modify a running fs you can set kern.geom.debugflags to 16. -Harry > But as you mentioned,. I would prefer to somehow merge it into the > current FBSD file system. > > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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