On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Kelly Martin wrote:

> I've got an A6 primary partition with various /usr and /var style partitions
> within. Pretty standard, but I ran out of disk space. I added a second
> primary A6 partition in the freespace of the same disk using fdisk, but

don't do this.

> Can someone walk me through this as if I were a monkey, and take me
> step-by-step? I wanna tell disklabel it's got to be /var/www/htdocs on the
> above partition, then run newfs, then mount it, and then add it to my fstab
> for good.

create some other parition type in fdisk, go into disklabel, use 'b' to 
edit the whole disk, and add a new partition with the appropriate values.  
i'd definitely use raw sector offsets for this, as chs geometry will 
likely be wrong.  then newfs and away you go.


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And that's why we don't want to be expected to help clean up the
mess you made.

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