On 2010-03-01 17:49, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:25:48 +0100, Leslie Jensen<les...@eskk.nu> wrote:
On a dualboot system I've made some space available that I want to make
a freebsd slice of.
[...]
Any suggestions on how to solve this?
I would suggest to use sysinstall oder sade for this task,
this is because I'm lazy. :-)
In the slice editor, you create a slice covering the space
you made free, or, if neccessary, you delete obsolete slices
prior to creating a new one.
In the label editor, you select the new slice (e. g. ad4s4)
and create a partition covering the whole slice. You set
the options "UFS2+S Y" (which means to use UFS2 file system
plus soft updates, and "yes" to newfs, so the partition will
be formatted), and set a mountpoint that you have already
created (e. g. /data).
Finally you confirm the settings and write them to the disk.
At this screen:
--------------------------------------------------------------
FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
Disk: ad4 Partition name: ad4s4 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Disk: ad4 Partition name: ad4s3 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----
ad4s4d /data 30866MB UFS2+S Y
ad4s3a <none> 1024MB *
ad4s3b swap 4096MB SWAP
ad4s3d <none> 2048MB *
ad4s3e <none> 4096MB *
ad4s3f <none> 20480MB *
ad4s3g <none> 28125MB *
The following commands are valid here (upper or lower case):
C = Create D = Delete M = Mount pt. W = Write
N = Newfs Opts Q = Finish S = Toggle SoftUpdates Z = Custom Newfs
T = Toggle Newfs U = Undo A = Auto Defaults R = Delete+Merge
Use F1 or ? to get more help, arrow keys to select.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Unfortunately at this point when I choose W to write the changes I get
the following error:
Unable to add /dev/ad4s3b as a swap device: the device is busy
This is the existing swap partition so I do not quite understand why I
get this error
Then I choose OK and then I get:
Error mounting /dev/ad4s4d on /data : No such file or directory
This should work fine.
Of course, you can do the same using the command line tools,
in the same order:
1. create new slice,
2. create new partition inside slice,
3. format the partition, and finally
4. mount it.
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