Hi again, Actually, if you are really at FreeBSD 2.2.8 as your other message seems to imply, I might be a little cautious about using fdisk in this way. More recent versions of fdisk are much more sophisticated and work well. I vaguely remember that this might not be so easy under FreeBSD 2.xxx, though I don't have one around now to check.
Read the man page carefully. ////jerry > > > > > How do you tell what size your hard drive is. And how much free space is > > left. > > Also, for absolute size (before partitioning and newfsing, etc) > use fdisk(8). Without any switches telling it to write, it will > give the total disk size in (512 byte) blocks and list the slices > and their sizes and tell which ones are bootable. Note that with > modern disks the geometry (cylinders, tracks, sectors) is sort of > a virtual geometry and not the actual physical layout of the disk. > > So, su to root > fdisk da0 (for example of a SCSI disk 0, substitute the > appropriate device name - use df or look in /etc/fstab) > > ////jerry > > > > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
