formatting hardrive
Manuel Rabade (MiG)
mig at mig-29.net
Sat Oct 4 12:55:44 PDT 2003
Sysintsall should work fine .. cand you send the output of 'fdisk /dev/ad2' and
'bsdlabel /dev/ad2'.
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:27:56PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :(
> Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ?????
> I spent all morning playing with bsdlabel, sysinstall... I just want to
> partition a second hardrive so I could dump/restore the content of my first
> drive.
> So, I tried sysinstall post-install tools to create the slices and all, but
> all I get are errors like "can't write to ad2", or "can't mount /dev/ad2s1a
> on /mnt" ....
> Basically what I want is:
> ad2s1a --> /mnt
> ad2s1b --> SWAP
> ad2s1d --> /mnt/tmp
> ad2s1e --> /mnt/var
> ad2s1f --> /mnt/usr
>
> So, all I have to do after is dump / --> /mnt, /tmp --> /mnt/tmp ... and so
> on.
> I sware I tried all morning without any kind of success :(
>
> I would really appreciate some help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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