Subject: Re: interactive disk label editing
To: Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/21/2005 00:01:49
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:48:13PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> 
> How can I run the sort of interactive disk label editor that appears
> in the installation process for NetBSD to extend the label on a disk
> to cover as yet unused sectors?

Boot the install media....  Select 'install', 'use existing layout',
install no sets and make sure you don't newfs anything you don't want to.

> I want to be lazier than is allowed
> for by the -i option to disklabel(8), and see the whole label so that
> I can adjust as I go.   I assume there's no special magic in the
> installation disk labelling process, but I can't discover what to do.

The code is only in sysinst.

	David

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