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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making another partition Date: 16 May 1996 16:18:12 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4nfgvk$2el@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <mozart-0805961121090001@madama.butterfly.net> <4mqud4$cva@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jeff Dickson (jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote: : I have half of the hard disk devoted to FreeBSD. The other half used to have : Linux on it - maybe still does. Just the same I'd like to reuse the space. I : thought of using the installation utility for this, but stopped short when : I read that changes to the partition table could wipe out all the data. I know : reinstalling FreeBSD from scratch is one way, but maybe that`s the hard way. : Comments? : Jeff S. Dickson : jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov Why not just mark the partition as FreeBSD using fdisk, then write an entry in /etc/disktab for it ? I'm sure this is FAQ'd somewhere. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....