Randi Harper wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhi...@onetel.com>wrote:
Hi,
This is from memory (brain not ram) and I can't recreate the steps for
reasons which will be obvious, so may not be entirely accurate.
I have a sata hard disk which is divided into 2 slices. Slice 1 (ad4s1) is
about half the disk and had the remains of a standard install with swap, / ,
/var, /tmp, /usr. Slice 2 (ad4s2) is the remainder and has a single
partition for data, ad4s2d. It was all created with sysinstall and doesn't
have anything special like dangerously dedicated.
The operating system on this machine is on a second hard disk which is what
I booted from.
I moved all the data from ad4s1f onto ad4s2d so that I could delete
partitions from slice 1 and make a single large partition.
I then unmounted all ad4* partitions. I may even have rebooted.
sysinstall - Configure - Label allowed me to delete ad4s1a but when I tried
to delete the other ad4s1* partitions sysinstall told me I had to set
kern.geom.debugflags=16 before I could make changes on a running system . I
set kern.geom.debugflags but changes I made in sysinstall did not take
effect, the partitions persisted, both as /dev/ad4s1* and as entries in
sysinstall
At some stage sysinstall core dumped and somewhere else ad4s2d got deleted.
I managed to recreate it and didn't lose any data.
Next I booted from a pen drive and successfully deleted the partitions from
slice 1, being very careful not to delete the partition on slice 2, however
when I exited from sysinstall ad4s2d was gone. Again I managed to recreate
it and didn't lose any data.
The bit that puzzles me is that ad4s2d disappeared twice and the second
time I am sure I didn't do any explicit steps to delete it.
Did I hit a bug in sysinstall or did I do something wrong? I didn't lose
any data in the end but I could easily have done (I know - back up - I'm
going to go and buy a nice big external hard disk very soon ;)
FreeBSD muji 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Nov 24 20:22:16
EST 2008 r...@pcbsdx32-7:/usr/obj/pcbsd-build/cvs/7.0.2-src/sys/PCBSD
i386
Everything is sorted now so I am really asking this out of curiousity.
Thanks
Chris
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When you booted from the pen drive, was sysinstall running as init? ie: is
this the memstick.img from the ftp site or a homebrew disc1.iso->usb image,
or did you have freebsd installed to the pen drive? If so, what version?
-- randi
I'm pretty sure I used these instructions to create the pen drive install.
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2
Otherwise it was a standard 7.2-R install. As the pen drive doesn't have
an rc.conf I think it must be the submonkey article.
uname -a for the pen drive:
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 1 21:15:38 BST
2009 r...@eco.config:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC_NO_SBP i386
uname -a for the bootable hard disk which I gave incorrectly in my first
post is
FreeBSD eco.config 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sat Jun 20
22:43:47 BST 2009
r...@eco.config:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC_NO_SBP i386
This is from Manolis's XFCE DVD
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page
Chris
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