Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 01:26:32 -0700 (PDT) From: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> To: Oliver Humpage <suzt_78@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: oliver@watershed.co.uk Subject: Re: formatting 'unused space' Message-ID: <20020729082632.89081.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020729081926.23979.qmail@web13901.mail.yahoo.com>
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Not a problem. I'm just an embarrising newbie;-) Ther is a *proper* way to do it, but using sysinstall is probably easiest. Yes, it can do this without affecting the rest of the disk. --- Oliver Humpage <suzt_78@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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