Subject: Re: hard drive partition problems
To: None <masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/04/1997 10:11:44
> 
> On Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:35:24 -0800 (PST),
> the boogeyman <boogeymn@psyber.com> wrote:
> > i recently took off my sd0g partition and moved the available space to 
> > sd0a...or so i thought. now BSD isnt recognizing that it has 200 more 
> > megs to write to on sd0a...how do i get it to see this extra space? 
> > thanks in advance...
> 
> A UNIX filesystem is structured in a way so that you cannot just "tuck
> in" an extra space to it and expect it to become larger.
> 
> You have to make a filesystem structure as a whole of the combined two
> partitions.  IOW, You need to run newfs, the equivalent term of UNIX
> to "high-level format".

Ken's right. Before you do anything, you do realize this will mean re-
installing everything, don't you?

I'd suggest changing the partition back before you've modified anything
other than the partition table. You've had enough problems getting
things working to schedule a reinstall now. :-)

Take care,

Bill