Hi! There is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (updated yesterday) having single SATA drive. The drive has two equal-sized slices ad4s1 and ad4s2, both marked with sysid 165 (FreeBSD).
The system occupies ad4s1 (partitions from a to h), and ad4s2 is empty. This scheme was created at installation time with sysinstall started by system boot CD (official disk1). Now, when the system is up and running, I need to create partitions within slice ad4s2. Questions are: 1. Do I really need 'sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16' if I do not want to touch MBR or living slice at all, and why, if I do? 2. How should I create new partitions within ad4s2? I've tried to use sysinstall, it fills bsdlabel right but fails to newfs/mount new partitions because device nodes do not exist. So now I have this: # bsdlabel ad4s2 # /dev/ad4s2: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 524288 2097152 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 2097152 0 swap c: 78702435 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 524288 2621440 4.2BSD 0 0 0 e: 4194304 3145728 4.2BSD 0 0 0 f: 20971520 7340032 4.2BSD 0 0 0 g: 20971520 28311552 4.2BSD 0 0 0 h: 29419363 49283072 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # ls -l /dev/ad4s2* crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 75 10 мар 14:53 /dev/ad4s2 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 84 10 мар 14:53 /dev/ad4s2c What should I do now to get needed device nodes? The server is remote one, it runs in production and I'd prefer to not reboot it. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
