Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

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Jerry McAllister wrote:
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.

I think I should of been a little more specific the physical layout is
completely correct (i.e. the sizes, start/end tracks, etc.) the only
problem is the logical numbering of the partitions/slices in the mbr
idea of the table... namely I just need to relabel them not modify
them in any way.

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

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


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