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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:29:09 +0000
From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com>
To: Rob <europa100@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: partitioning "after the fact"
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On 17/01/06, Rob <europa100@comcast.net> wrote:

> #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G pr=
imary partition


> t I would like to make partition #2 to also contain
> FreeBSD.  But if I remember correctly there is no way to do such a
> thing without starting all over again in setting up the disk.

course you can. man fdisk and disklabel, or just use sysinstall:

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.ht=
ml


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