Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
r00t_0101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition through command-line instead of manual reboot. So whith

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
r00t_0101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition through command-line instead of manual reboot. So

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Danny Braniss wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the command fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk. That will request for confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively (e.g. in a script), use echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /dev/ I use

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the command fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk. That will request for confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively (e.g. in a script), use echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /dev/ I

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Danny Braniss wrote: sorry!, it was before morning coffee, s/bsdlabel/boot0cfg/ Ah, OK. Yes, that would also work, but only if you have the boot manager installed. (Strictly speaking it doesn't change the active slice, which will always be the FreeBSD slice, but it changes the slice

BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-19 Thread r00t_0101
Folks, Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition through command-line instead of manual reboot. So whith that said, my goal is to create