need help setting up a new partition

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 2/8/06, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > > On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote:
> > > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second
> > > > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition).  I am willing
> > to
> > > > sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am
> > > > lacking space there.  I'm just not sure how to proceed.
. . .
> Actually I changed a sysctl setting (sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16) and I
> was able to delete/create the partition.  Now I am stuck trying to create
> the slices.  It keeps telling me the mount points do not exist when they
> do.  I rebooted after creating them.
>

Command line tools are much easier.

dd if=dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s2 bs=1024k count=1
glabel label -v l0 /dev/ad0s2
bsdlabel -w /dev/label/l0
bsdlabel -e /dev/label/l0
newfs -U -O2 -b 16384 -f 2048 /dev/label/l0[ad-g]
mount . . .
echo 'geom_label_load="yes"' >> /boot/loader.conf

glabel is pretty spiffy, you can then dispense with the
worry about having to change your /etc/fstab every time you
move a hard drive, if you move hard drives from controller
to controller, tossing notions of "fixed" disks to the wind.

Note well: I have no idea how well geom_label and boot devices
work together.

Note also: sysinstall is silly for standard tasks like disk slicing
and partitioning, and as well, it's not very geom-aware.
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