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mfsadd fails without -x flag
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Posted by: gneuf

Here's the setup:

I've got an upgraded 120GB functional standalone A drive, and a new 120GB B drive with a freshly made partition table with a New MFS App/New MFS Media pair, A and B drives as Secondary master and slave. I'm using MFSTOOLS 2.0 / Boot CD.

When I try to

mfsadd /dev/hdc /dev/hdd

it complains

Current estimated standalone size: 120 hours
Adding pair /dev/hdd2-/dev/hdd3...
/dev/hdd2: Success
Error adding /dev/hdd2-/dev/hdd3!

It also fails with appending a "/dev/hdd2 /dev/hdd3" pair to the above commandline (the MFS app/Media pair on the B drive), as well as failing with "mfsadd /dev/hdc /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdd3".

I'm avoiding -x with the second drive because I've deliberately kept some free space at the end of the B drive that I want to preserve.

Anyone seen this happen before?

Hopefully I'm just doing it incorrectly.... :)

Posted by: legalaliens

I think that the lack of responses is due to your "...with a freshly made partition table with a New MFS App/New MFS Media pair" statement.

What are you trying to accomplish? Is there something on the second disk you are trying to preserve? Are you trying to use just part of the second disk (the part that is partitioned)?

Posted by: gneuf

Sorry - too much info and not enough question:

What's the best way to add the first 115BG of a new, blank 120GB "B" drive to an existing 120GB "A" drive, leaving 5GB of free space in the final, apple_free partition on the "B" drive?