From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 16:20:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA12308 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.nation-net.com ([194.159.125.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12301 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mag.nation-net.com (194.159.125.14) by mailgate.nation-net.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:06:16 +0000 Message-ID: <32075E9E.508A@nation-net.com> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 16:02:54 +0100 From: Paul Walsh X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Removing a fips partition with fdisk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Would this be safe to do? My disk has a 2nd dos and 1 freeBSD partition, both created with fips. Now I want to lose the extra fips dos partition and hopefully reclaim it back in the original dos partition! Fips won't let me do this , so is it OK to use fdisk? (I know how easy it is to lose file systems playing with fips.) AND, what would be the best way to set up a mirror drive for use in emergencies? Since it would have to be bootable and essentially an exact copy is this possible with the mirror package ( whose name I forget ) Could I dump straight onto a second drive, once I have done a minimum install? Thanks , Paul Walsh -- paul@nation-net.com Walsh Simmons 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK