From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 19:25:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05344 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 19:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA05339 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 19:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-134 [207.14.72.134]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02948; Thu, 1 May 1997 17:22:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 18:15:22 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Nadav Eiron cc: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez , FreeBSD Questions mailing list Subject: Re: Assigning more disk space... In-Reply-To: <33684817.69E9@barcode.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 May 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > When I installed FreeBSD in my machine, it has Windows95, so I used fips > > and assigned half of the disk space to freebsd and the other half to > > windows. Now, I want to throw away Win95 and assign its disk space to > > FreeBSD. Also, I am running out of swap (I used the defaults when > > installing), so probably I need to assign aditional swap space too. What > > is the best way to do both things? My FBSD version is 2.1.5. > > This is pretty tough. Having two FreeBSD slices on the same hard disk is > a bit of a problem because only one of them can be bootable, and by > murphy's law, if you delete your Win95 partition and put a FreeBSD slice > instead, it will render your old FreeBSD slice unbootable. I'd suggest why would it necessarily render the old slice unbootable? the bootstrapping doesn't care what kind of partition/slice it loads ... ? you just wouldn't want booteasy to try to boot an un-bootable partition. why can't you just reformat and label the 95 partition from FBSD, and add it to fstab? > backing up and reinstalling FreeBSD to take the whole disk. You may also > try to create a FreeBSD slice instead of the Win95 slice, and if it > doesn't boot, install FreeBSD into that slice, and then modifying it to > use everything but the root filesystem from the second slice, but I'd > rate that as dangerous at best. > > Nadav ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------