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From: vikas@newsreader.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Creating filesystem partitions
Date: 16 Dec 1996 07:39:45 GMT
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(As a follow up to my own posting)...
I did manage to add the extra "slice" to my system by looking at some
of the older postings on this newsgroup.
I was having a nightmare of a time trying to disklabel the new slice
using disklabel directly (fdisk was still doable).
Essentially I went into /stand/sysinstall and let that nice frontend
do the disklabel-ing for me.
I would still like to comment that it would be nice if this same "frontend"
for using disklabel can be a part of disklabel itself. SunOS 4.x has the
fairly user-friendly interface in "format" for creating partitions- I
think it is very useful...
Ditto for disklabel- seems like the nice user friendly interface from
sysinstall can be easily incorporated into fdisk directly.
I would still like to know where the /dev/wd0a came from...
-vikas
: When I installed FreeBSD on my machine, I used the second fdisk partition
: for FreeBSD (the first one wd0s1 contains DOS, the FreeBSD partition is
: wd0s2).
: I now wanted to use the remaining disk partitions also for FreeBSD.
: While installing FreeBSD 2.1.5, the sysinstall had a nice front end
: which made the partitions etc. and then went into the sub-partitions
: menu etc. etc.
: However, I cant seem to find that same frontend. I have run fdisk and
: sort of created the 3rd partition manually (wd0s3 ?) but dont know
: how to run disklabel (do I need to ?)
: I want to end up with creating wd0s3a wd0s3d etc etc which I can then
: newfs.