From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 12 23:10:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA20879 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20869 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA10293; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:10:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sivaprasad Pullabhotla cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to reclaim the partition allocated to Free BSD? In-Reply-To: <199710102132.OAA08784@veda> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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