Editing FreeBSD Reference (section)

= Creating a FreeBSD partition by hand on 5.x+ =

Make sure nothing is mounted on /dev/aacd1s1e

<pre>df
Filesystem    1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/aacd0s1a    126702    53952     62614    46%    /
devfs                 1        1         0   100%    /dev
/dev/aacd0s1h  64723478  3701892  61021586     6%    /mnt/data1
/dev/aacd1s1e 139035548 15496136 123539412    11%    /mnt/data2
/dev/aacd0s1f    253678      462    232922     0%    /tmp
/dev/aacd0s1g   3045006  1771920   1029486    63%    /usr
/dev/aacd0s1e    253678    10162    223222     4%    /var
procfs                4        4         0   100%    /proc

umount /mnt/data2

bsdlabel -e /dev/aacd1s1

# /dev/aacd1s1:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  b:  4194304        0      swap
  c: 286679862        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
  e: 282485558  4194304    4.2BSD        0     0     0</pre>

going to create a new e, 2G, and the rest will be f, so replace e with:

  <pre>e:   4194304  4194304    4.2BSD        0     0     0
  f: 278291254  8388608    4.2BSD        0     0     0</pre>

make sure it took:

<pre>bsdlabel /dev/aacd1s1
# /dev/aacd1s1:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  b:  4194304        0      swap
  c: 286679862        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
  e:  4194304  4194304    4.2BSD        0     0     0
  f: 278291254  8388608    4.2BSD        0     0     0</pre>

create new fs:

 newfs /dev/aacd1s1e
(output)
 newfs /dev/aacd1s1f
(output)

 mkdir /mnt/data3

 mount /dev/aacd1s1e /mnt/data2
 mount /dev/aacd1s1f /mnt/data3

<pre>df
Filesystem    1K-blocks    Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/aacd0s1a    126702   53954     62612    46%    /
devfs                 1       1         0   100%    /dev
/dev/aacd0s1h  64723478 3701892  61021586     6%    /mnt/data1
/dev/aacd0s1f    253678     462    232922     0%    /tmp
/dev/aacd0s1g   3045006 1771920   1029486    63%    /usr
/dev/aacd0s1e    253678   10162    223222     4%    /var
procfs                4       4         0   100%    /proc
/dev/aacd1s1e   2026030       4   1863944     0%    /mnt/data2
/dev/aacd1s1f 134764734       4 123983552     0%    /mnt/data3</pre>