From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 1:19:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA4A37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 01:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13901.mail.yahoo.com (web13901.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2410B43E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 01:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from suzt_78@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20020729081926.23979.qmail@web13901.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.10.250.53] by web13901.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:19:26 BST Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:19:26 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Oliver=20Humpage?= Subject: formatting 'unused space' To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: oliver@watershed.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, this is an embarrassingly newbie question... A 20GB disk in my mail server was about to die, so I did an emergency dd(1) of its contents over to a new 40GB drive. So now, on the new drive, I have a 20GB partition (with /, /usr and /var on it), and 20GB of "unused" space. Is it possible to fdisk (and presumably disklabel) this spare 20GB? I don't want to do anything fancy with it, just to have it mounted as /spare_space or similar. And since this is our main mail server, I don't really want to wipe the whole disk and restore from tape... I couldn't tell from `man fdisk` whether you can format one partition without wiping the whole drive. Can you in fact just ask for the unused space to be "FreeBSD" in sysinstall, and it won't touch your other partitions? Or if fdisk won't do it, is there anything that can? Many thanks, Oliver. (Posted from Yahoo!, since our ISP doesn't do reverse lookup on IPs, and the mailing list rejects me...) -- Oliver Humpage ICT Co-ordinator Watershed Media Centre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message