From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 06:28:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA07530 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 06:28:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA07516 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 06:28:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA02276 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:27:35 +0100 Message-Id: <199603261427.PAA02276@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: How to remove the DOS parity? To: xiyuan@npc.haplink.co.cn (xiyuan qian) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 15:24:48 MET From: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603262226.WAA23352@npc.haplink.co.cn>; from "xiyuan qian" at Mar 26, 96 10:26 pm X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> From lehey.pad@sni.de Tue Mar 26 21:25:14 1996 >>> I have seen someone with the same question: how to remove the DOS >>> parity which will be not used forever, but unfortunately, I did >>> not see the answer. I think you can help me. >> >> I wish I could, but I'm not sure what you are talking about. What do >> you mean by "DOS parity"? Can you describe it in other terms? > > Sorry for my poor expression. I think the right word is "DOS > partition", which take almost half of my hard disk, now, I do want > to remove it, how to unmount it? Yes, that sounds like the DOS partition. If you want to completely get rid of your DOS partition and use the whole disk for FreeBSD, the easiest way is probably to reinstall FreeBSD. In the disk slice editor, delete everything, and create a single entry for FreeBSD. It should also be possible to delete the DOS partition using /stand/sysinstall from a running system. This is potentially dangerous: I don't think that sysinstall will stop you from deleting your own slice while you're running. If it works, however, and if you can create a second FreeBSD slice, you might be able to mount this slice as another set of file systems. Possibly somebody who knows disk partitioning better than I could comment; whichever way you go, consider this very much an experimental option. Greg