From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 20:12:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09289 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:12:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08950 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA24907; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:11:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Alfred Perlstein cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fix for hardrive limit? In-Reply-To: <199801122223.WAA26805@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > i recently bought a 4.3gig drive, when i installed it for some reason > freebsd only reports it as being around 4gigs, i think the reason for it is > that when i put the drive in it was in an older system that didn't see the > additional capacity... now i have it in a machine that does see the extra > 300 or so megs... is there anyway to reclaim this space without redoing my > whole drive? You can't extend the existing filesystem, but you can format and use the additional slice. Use http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ as a guide and proceed carefully. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major