Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:19:26 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Oliver=20Humpage?= <suzt_78@yahoo.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: oliver@watershed.co.uk Subject: formatting 'unused space' Message-ID: <20020729081926.23979.qmail@web13901.mail.yahoo.com>
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Sorry, this is an embarrassingly newbie question... A 20GB disk in my mail server was about to die, so I did an emergency dd(1) of its contents over to a new 40GB drive. So now, on the new drive, I have a 20GB partition (with /, /usr and /var on it), and 20GB of "unused" space. Is it possible to fdisk (and presumably disklabel) this spare 20GB? I don't want to do anything fancy with it, just to have it mounted as /spare_space or similar. And since this is our main mail server, I don't really want to wipe the whole disk and restore from tape... I couldn't tell from `man fdisk` whether you can format one partition without wiping the whole drive. Can you in fact just ask for the unused space to be "FreeBSD" in sysinstall, and it won't touch your other partitions? Or if fdisk won't do it, is there anything that can? Many thanks, Oliver. (Posted from Yahoo!, since our ISP doesn't do reverse lookup on IPs, and the mailing list rejects me...) -- Oliver Humpage ICT Co-ordinator Watershed Media Centre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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