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From: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: formatting 'unused space'
To: Oliver Humpage <suzt_78@yahoo.co.uk>,
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Not a problem. I'm just an embarrising newbie;-)

Ther is a *proper* way to do it, but using sysinstall
is probably easiest.
Yes, it can do this without affecting the rest of the
disk.

--- Oliver Humpage <suzt_78@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, this is an embarrassingly newbie question...
> 
> A 20GB disk in my mail server was about to die, so I
> did an emergency dd(1) of its contents over to a new
> 40GB drive. So now, on the new drive, I have a 20GB
> partition (with /, /usr and /var on it), and 20GB of
> "unused" space.
> 
> Is it possible to fdisk (and presumably disklabel)
> this spare 20GB? I don't want to do anything fancy
> with it, just to have it mounted as /spare_space or
> similar. And since this is our main mail server, I
> don't really want to wipe the whole disk and restore
> from tape...
> 
> I couldn't tell from `man fdisk` whether you can
> format one partition without wiping the whole drive.
> Can you in fact just ask for the unused space to be
> "FreeBSD" in sysinstall, and it won't touch your
> other
> partitions? Or if fdisk won't do it, is there
> anything
> that can?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Oliver.
> 
> (Posted from Yahoo!, since our ISP doesn't do
> reverse
> lookup on IPs, and the mailing list rejects me...)
> 
> --
> Oliver Humpage
> ICT Co-ordinator
> Watershed Media Centre
> 
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