Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Alexander Hall
Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Kelly Martin wrote: I've got an A6 primary partition with various /usr and /var style partitions within. Pretty standard, but I ran out of disk space. I added a second primary A6 partition in the freespace of the same disk using fdisk, but don't do

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Bruno Rohee
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:20:51AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: Not that I have an issue with this now, but would it be possible to extend the current A6 partition and then update the disklabel accordingly, if there is free space is directly after, or could/will this hose stuff? I would

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Alexander Hall
Bruno Rohee wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:20:51AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: Not that I have an issue with this now, but would it be possible to extend the current A6 partition and then update the disklabel accordingly, if there is free space is directly after, or could/will this hose

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Bruno Rohee
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:29:22PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: Well, I was referring to the OBSD MBR partition (of type A6) (aka BIOS partitions), a' la fdisk(8). Maybe a bit unclear on that. So, basically, I wondered if it would be possible to extend MBR: ||A6

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Alexander Hall wrote: Not that I have an issue with this now, but would it be possible to extend the current A6 partition and then update the disklabel accordingly, if there is free space is directly after, or could/will this hose stuff? I would feel more comfortable with

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Tuesday, September 6, Kelly Martin wrote: I've got an A6 primary partition with various /usr and /var style partitions within. Pretty standard, but I ran out of disk space. I added a second primary A6 partition in the freespace of the same disk using fdisk, but cannot figure out how to

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Wednesday, September 7, Alexander Hall wrote: Well, I was referring to the OBSD MBR partition (of type A6) (aka BIOS partitions), a' la fdisk(8). Maybe a bit unclear on that. So, basically, I wondered if it would be possible to extend MBR: ||A6 partition..|Unpartitioned|...|

adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-06 Thread Kelly Martin
I gotta ask for help or I'm gonna hose my multi-boot system. I've got an A6 primary partition with various /usr and /var style partitions within. Pretty standard, but I ran out of disk space. I added a second primary A6 partition in the freespace of the same disk using fdisk, but cannot figure

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-06 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Kelly Martin wrote: I've got an A6 primary partition with various /usr and /var style partitions within. Pretty standard, but I ran out of disk space. I added a second primary A6 partition in the freespace of the same disk using fdisk, but don't do this. Can someone walk