From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 18:38:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05063 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:38:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05030 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10644; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:39:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199901260239.VAA10644@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Deletion of windows and subsequent reformatting In-Reply-To: from Spike at "Jan 25, 99 09:28:03 pm" To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:39:15 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spike wrote, > 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? You need to label the 'disk.' (Remeber a DOS partition is a FreeBSD slice, and that FreeBSD partitions live in one slice.) See 'man disklabel.' In a sense, FreeBSD treats a slice like a whole disk. Think about how you might want to repartition your disk. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message