From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 7 19:20:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA21670 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 19:20:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from imo13.mx.aol.com (imo13.mx.aol.com [198.81.19.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA21661 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 19:20:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from QHunt29936@aol.com) From: QHunt29936 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:08:11 EST To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ? on disk part. edit Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) X-Mailer: Inet_Mail_Out (IMOv11) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I try to boot Bsd on my PC with DOS and Windows------------ on "disk partition editor" I got message : disk name: wd1 offset size end name ptype desc. subtype 0 1008 1007 - 6 unused 0 #1 1008 1030176 1031183 wd1s1 1 extended 5 #2 1031184 1008 1032192 - 6 unused 0 #3 I think the #1 and #3 too small (since 1008x512 bites =512 KBytes< 20MB)?, so I highlighted the #2, then I was told that this slice is in use and should be deleted, if I do so I will lost files ( used in Windows) in this disk? what is meant here the "deleted"-----the same as that in DOS? but the sizes of #1 and #3 kept the same after I deleted many DOS files from the wd1 (it is the 2nd disk in my PC).