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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Disk Space
In-Reply-To: <199706291750.NAA16214@limbo.senate.org> from Nathan Dorfman at "Jun 29, 97 01:50:34 pm"
To: nathan@senate.org (Nathan Dorfman)
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:41:50 +0200 (MET DST)
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> The setup I had when I installed this box was two 540MB IDE hard drives, one
> had a huge DOS partition plus a 63MB FreeBSD swap partition, the other had a
> 540MB FreeBSD swap partition. I am running out of space for FreeBSD; can I
> create partitions on the first drive (by deleting DOS) and move /home and
> /usr/src and perhaps some other trees there without reinstalling the entire
> system?

Yes. You can use /stand/sysinstall's post installation menu to
fdisk, label and newfs the DOS partition or enter the corresponding
commands from the commandline. Reading the FAQ 2.18 ''How can I
add my new hard disk..'' is recommended!

Wolfgang