On Wednesday 03 February 2010 03:59:15 Steve Franks wrote: > On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a &%^#& and > read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice > tui.
sade(8) is the standalone version of sysinstall's partitioning subroutine. Also, if you're running a reasonably recent version of FreeBSD, you might want to take a look at gpart(8) which can do slicing and labeling (and a whole bunch of other disk partitioning related stuff). Regards, Pieter > 'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk. > I see in the handbook, this is alluded to, but some intermediate level > between begginer and expert (bsdlabel just strikes me as way too easy > to trash the disk I'm running off of while trying to make a backup), > would be nice...512M just won't fit the kernel+symbols. > > <fuming, reading man bsdlabel ;) > > > Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
