Subject: Re: hard drive partition problems
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: the boogeyman <boogeymn@psyber.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/04/1997 11:00:02
too late...already did reinstall...hey its a learning process! this is
all gearing me up to tackle setting up an internet server on a PPro 200
dual system running freebsd...i want to get a SUN but everyone keeps
telling me that i should go with a pc...what do you guys think?
also, is "Apache" a free WWW server or do i have to pay for it? what are
it's advantages over HTTPD? thanks...you guys rule :)
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >
> > 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
>