From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 18:29:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02629 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PigStuy.nws.net (nyc-ny70-37.ix.netcom.com [209.109.226.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02616 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by PigStuy.nws.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA00461 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:28:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: PigStuy.nws.net: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:28:03 -0500 (EST) From: Spike X-Sender: spork@PigStuy.nws.net Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: fbsdqs Subject: Deletion of windows and subsequent reformatting Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I just deleted Winblows 95 off my hard drive. I'm very happy about this, but would like to reclaim the space for FreeBSD. My FreeBSD resides in /dev/sd0s2[abef] and my winblows used to live in /dev/sd0s1. "newfs /dev/sd0s1" results in: PigStuy# newfs /dev/sd0s1 newfs: /dev/sd0s1: not a character-special device newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument newfs: /dev/sd0s1: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified How do I re-format the ex-winblows part of my hard drive so FreeBSD can use it? -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNq0oOZ31G6IEwnwxAQH66gQAt1rbbLMkUC6WrOjunHuLch4ijsuIAe/8 SWxUPGyglsb0NNOXn4PvvZ/6iY5K3pa2MgVZmJfTNf/pjIju/+7LBVbPzyg2JVEh h49G52hn0aOUYeom5PslxK5La1olIWTa6Fbsz+EO00QfhYNz5EzmLUNQblpMdLY1 61kTsE+iPwg= =VKMK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message