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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:13:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
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Subject: RE: need help setting up a new partition
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On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second
> partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition).  I am willing to
> sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am
> lacking space there.  I'm just not sure how to proceed.

Use sysinstall to delete the partition and then re-create it as ufs.
 
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Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"