On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
>
>Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled
> using slices.
>Is it possible to change it to "dangerously dedicated" without
> backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle?
>
>
>R
using live CD/DVD make your new disklabel that mirrors existing but is in
/dev/disk not /dev/diskslice, check it (try mount -r your partitions from
/dev/disk[a-h]), clean MBR with fdisk, install bootrecord with
bsdlabel -B /dev/disk
then mount your / partition and fix etc/fstab
it's not just
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled
> using slices.
> Is it possible to change it to "dangerously dedicated" without
> backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle?
>
Not really.And why would you w
On Jan 20, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Robert Huff wrote:
Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled
using slices. Is it possible to change it to "dangerously
dedicated" without
backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle?
Nope. Since you'd only gain a megabyte of disk space (pro
Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled
using slices.
Is it possible to change it to "dangerously dedicated" without
backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle?
Robert Huff
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