Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:11:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fix for hardrive limit? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113201101.24708a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801122223.WAA26805@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > i recently bought a 4.3gig drive, when i installed it for some reason > freebsd only reports it as being around 4gigs, i think the reason for it is > that when i put the drive in it was in an older system that didn't see the > additional capacity... now i have it in a machine that does see the extra > 300 or so megs... is there anyway to reclaim this space without redoing my > whole drive? You can't extend the existing filesystem, but you can format and use the additional slice. Use http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ as a guide and proceed carefully. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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