Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:44:03 -0500 (EST) From: Spike <spork@ix.netcom.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: sporkl@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deletion of windows and subsequent reformatting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901252142080.271-100000@PigStuy.nws.net> In-Reply-To: <199901260239.VAA10644@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> 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.
"disklabel -r /dev/sd0s1" reports:
disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
This doesn't make much sense to me. I wish to partition the entire thing
in to a FreeBSD filesystem partition (no swap).
"fdisk -t /dev/sd0" reports:
******* Working on device /dev/sd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=522 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=522 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 4192965, size 4192965 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 521/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
>
> Think about how you might want to repartition your disk.
> --
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
>
>
-Spike Gronim
sporkl@ix.netcom.com
The majority only rules those who let them.
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