Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen 
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From: Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com
Date: 2010/4/30
Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions
To: Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com


2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi
 
  I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot
  with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via
 Sysinstall
  with 7 partitions:
 
  /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local)
  /dev/da0s2b (swap)
  /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
 
  I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for
  backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition.



 You should create a new slice (da0s3) and then create new partitions
 on it or use the whole slice (ad0s3c).

 Regards


 Alberto Mijares


Thanks Alberto

So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions?  Just a matter of
interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know.

The next problem is that i made fdisk create the two slices covering all the
space of the disk. Can I somehow - using FreeBSD tools - shrink the size of
da0s2 without data loss?

Regards,
Jon

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Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen 
2010/5/1 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote:
  Hi
 
  I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot
  with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via
 Sysinstall
  with 7 partitions:
 
  /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local)
  /dev/da0s2b (swap)
  /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates)
  /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
 
  I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for
  backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition.
  If i create a file for bsdlabel like
 
  #   sizeoffset  fstype
  i:  *   0   4.2BSD
 
  I get the following error message: line 2: partition name out of range
 a-h:
  i
  I have also tried with gpart:
 
  gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2
 
  I get something like gpart: index '9': No space left on device
 
  I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does,
 but
  then I don't know how to do.
  Any ideas?

 Use vinum - thats what I needed to do. Mind I had around 15 partitions
 to work out so it is effective...

 Maybe I should consider that too. But this installation is quite
experimental, and I just thought that it would be a simple task to make a
few extra partitions, since that was what I read about when 8.0 was
released. But I haven't found any documentation on the issue.
I guess I either  have to use some non-FreeBSD tool to change the size of my
slices or backup the installation to another drive, rerun fdisk etc., and
copy the system back.

'Regards,
Jon
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