From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 18:46:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 67B9316A40F for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:46:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wc_fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from cartman.xxiii.com (cartman.xxiii.com [208.62.177.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACF243D6E for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:46:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wc_fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from [192.168.0.218] (lan23.xxiii.com [208.62.177.50]) by cartman.xxiii.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k92Ik48T016753 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:46:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wc_fbsd@xxiii.com) Message-ID: <45215E6E.3000907@xxiii.com> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:46:06 -0400 From: Wayne User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to Re-Label / Re-create filesystems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:46:10 -0000 Could someone point me to instructions or offer suggestions on how to re-configure file systems on a 6.x system? When I installed from CD, I used the sysinstall menu, which I guess actually calls bsdlabel and newfs (??) I want to delete two filesystems, and recreate one large one in the same space. I tried dropping to single user and running sysinstall, but it protests it can't write to the device... even when I only had things mounted read-only. Can I safely use the boot CD to do this? I don't want to experiment too much and clobber the whole drive! -Thanks, Wayne