Subject: Re: Using disklabel -e wd0 to add new partition
To: sucho2 <sucho2@vt.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/30/2002 21:18:06
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:59:38PM -0500, sucho2 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to add a partition and received many valuable info regarding how
> to do it. I did as instructed:
>
> disklabel -e wd0
>
> and the vi editor show up with partition info.
>
> I've added new partition by editing the vi file and saved it. But, it saves
> the modified file in /tmp directory but not actually modifing the disk
> partition. Do I need to replace the modified file that was created and saved
Yes, vi saves it in /tmp. After that disklabel will process this file and
update the partition info. Didn't this work for you ?
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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