From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 13:41:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02611 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwis.com (droberts@darcy.gwis.com [209.57.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02602 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:41:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from droberts@gwis.com) Received: from localhost (droberts@localhost) by gwis.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA09770 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:40:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:40:44 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Roberts To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: converting dos partition Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having a hard time interpreting the man pages regarding fixed disk configuration and want to be absolutely clear how to do this before I end up trashing some important data.. The system I'm attempting to alter has a single 2.1G hard drive in it, currently separated 1/2 freebsd and the other half windows 95. Win95 has outlived its usefulness, and I'd now like to use that entire partition for FreeBSD. Current config: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 49231 16744 28549 37% / /dev/wd0s2f 843935 740758 35663 95% /usr /dev/wd0s2e 49231 8745 36548 19% /var /dev/wd0s1 1023824 405456 618368 40% /dosc The FreeBSD boot manager selects the OS at bootup currently, and the dos partition appears to be the first partition. My biggest worry is that if I newfs wd0s1, I'll never be able to boot this machine again. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could someone give me the basic steps I would take to perform this alteration? (please cc: directly, I'm not on the list) Thanks for your time. -- Dan Roberts, http://gwis.com/~droberts Gateway to Internet Services sysadmin/ircadmin, Strahd on DALnet IRC for Internet access in NE Ohio Dragons Hockey, http://rm-rf.net/dragons http://www.gwis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message