Jerry McAllister writes:
> The only thing you aren't doing in either of these cases is making
> that da0s1a bootable. If you want that, you need to do:
That's because it already is, and I do _not_ want to change that.
It's a 4.5 G disk. When I installed the system, I spent 0.5 G
on /, 1 G for swap, another for /var ... and left the rest
untouched.
I now have a project that can use that space.
> If I am doing it by hand, I would prefer using direct edit as in:
> (NOTE, you apparently already have some usable label on the disk)
>
> >> bsdlabel -e -r da0s1
>
> This will bring up an edit session (vi unless you have your editor
> set to something else - I use vi)
> as follows.
>
> > # /dev/da0s1:
> > 8 partitions:
> > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> > a: 1024000 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0
> > b: 2097152 * swap
> > c: * 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't
> edit
> > d: 2097152 * 4.2BSD 0 0 0
> > e: * * 4.2BSD 0 0 0
So (using the file method) I can specify the start, use '*' for
the size, and it will compute the correct value for "rest of the slice"?
Robert Huff
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