Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:33:04PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:


I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2
but Vista insists that there is no suitable partion to install to
(even though the ntfs partition is big enough)... after some research
I found that vista absolutely insists that the ntfs partition be
partition 1... how do I swap them and/or delete the ntfs one and
renumber it so freebsd is in partion slot 2 (with nothing in 1 and
then I can use fdisk to make a new slot 1)

Well, you can use fdisk from the fixit shell to make your slice 2 (note
the primary divisions are called 'slices' in FreeBSD) in to a FreeBSD
type and then create your FreeBSD partitions in it and build FreeBSD
filesystems there.

Then, still using the fixit, use dump/restore to copy the contents of
the FreeBSD filesystems over.
Assuming the major slices are ad0s1 and ad0s2, then something like:
mkdir /oldroot
mount /ad0s1a /oldroot
mkdir /newroot
mount /ad0s2a /newroot
cd /newroot
dump 0af - / | restore -rf -

That will get the root partition/filesystem.
Do appropriately similar for the rest of the FreeBSD filesystems.

Note that while in fixit, the running root (/) is in a memory
filesystem which will go away after you reboot. So, those
mount points you create (oldroot, newroot, etc) are temporary.

Then use a utility such as gparted (freely downloadable as ISO)
to convert the #1 slice into NTFS and install Vista there.
You might be able to get FreeBSD's fdisk to do the convesion to
NTFS, but I have never tried that. You would have to know the
code number for it.

////jerry


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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
Developer, not business, friendly.

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