Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Danny Braniss wrote: > sorry!, it was before morning coffee, > s/bsdlabel/boot0cfg/ Ah, OK. Yes, that would also work, but only if you have the boot manager installed. (Strictly speaking it doesn't change the active slice, which will always be the FreeBSD slice, but it changes the slice t

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
> Danny Braniss wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the > > > command "fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk". That will request for > > > confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively > > > (e.g. in a script), use "echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Danny Braniss wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the > > command "fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk". That will request for > > confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively > > (e.g. in a script), use "echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /dev/...". >

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
> r00t_0101 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. > > I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume > > management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition > > through command-line instead of manual reb

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
r00t_0101 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. > I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume > management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition > through command-line instead of manual reboot. So wh

BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-19 Thread r00t_0101
Folks, Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition through command-line instead of manual reboot. So whith that said, my goal is to create m