From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 19:07:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14905 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mole.slip.net (mole.slip.net [207.171.193.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA14824 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:07:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@slip.net) Received: from sf-pm17-23-87.dialup.slip.net [207.171.212.87] by mole.slip.net with smtp (Exim 1.73 #2) id 0y0HeZ-0006JT-00; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:07:03 -0800 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:05:44 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@bsampley.my.domain To: "David L. Vondrasek" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMOVING a HD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980204153904.007f7bc0@mail.airmail.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" su to root umount /aux dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1 count=2 delete the entire line from /etc/fstab for /dev/wd1s1e and save /sbin/shutdown -h now Power-down system and remove the drive. Power-up and your back in business. You should also remove the directory /aux. I haven't actually tried this, but it should work. Hope this helps. -burton- --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu or bsampley@slip.net PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, David L. Vondrasek wrote: > I have a 2nd Drive set up as /acces , 5 gigs, I would like to remove it > from the machine and use in another box. *Nothing* has been put on the > drive or ever accessed. How do I remove the drive without affecting the > rest of the system that runs just fine. I have another 5 GIG as the system > drive that seems to be enough. SO i'm going to use the other 5 GIG on > another machine. > > Wed Feb 4 3:32:56pm stumbleinn (24) : df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0a 98479 16137 74464 18% / > /dev/wd1s1e 4892165 11868 4488924 0% /aux <<--------- > /dev/wd0s1f 2652110 734413 1705529 30% /usr > /dev/wd0s1e 148703 3686 133121 3% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > /usr/home/dvo264 > Wed Feb 4 3:32:57pm stumbleinn (25) : > > Thanks > > Dave > ---- > > David L. Vondrasek > > dallas.tex@airmail.net > http://web2.airmail.net/dvo264/ > >