Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:10:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sivaprasad Pullabhotla <siva@pdc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to reclaim the partition allocated to Free BSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012230925.9609K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710102132.OAA08784@veda>
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Sivaprasad Pullabhotla wrote: > I installed FreeBSD on my primary hard disk by partioning the disk by > using fip utility. Now I have upgraded my machine with a new hard disk > and would be installing FreeBSD on the new partition. My question is how > do I reclaim the partition on my primary disk ( I want to use it for > some Windows 95 files). > > I tried using fdisk from dos prompt and deleted the partition allocated > for BSD. But still, the disk space is not released from the BSD > partition. Um, yes it was. It will be on your next reboot. If you want Win95 to recognize it again, run FDISK from it and create a DOS partition there. Then format it and viola, you have Win95 space. 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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