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From: "Michael A. Alestock" <michaela@maa-net.net>
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Subject: LABEL (The FreeBSD Disklabel Editor)
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I have an existing FreeBSD v4.7 installation and want to delete a small
filesystem that I had designated for email (/var/mail), and want to freeup
that unused space to the '/usr/home' filesystem.  If I use DISKLABEL to
delete '/var/mail', and then re-write '/usr/home' to reflect the added
space (writing the changes to the SAME '/usr/home' partition), will that
erase the '/usr/home' filesystem and all of its user-data contents
from the disk itself???