adding unused disk space for FreeBSD

[Leon Messner]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:04:01PM +0000, carlo.matteotti at bluewin.ch wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a FreeBSD slice (/dev/ad4s3) on which my FreeBSD system lives and
> some unused free diskspace (resulting from deletion of another OS (no names
> :-))) on the harddisk. I'd like to use this free diskspace with FreeBSD.
> I was unable to figure out how to do that using 'fdisk and friends'.
> 
Hi,
IMHO the fastest way is using either sysinstall or fdisk to
delete the old "no names" slice and create a FreeBSD (type 165/0xA5)
slice. After that you can create partition(s) within that new slice
using disklabel/sysinstall. You should fsck the partition afterwards.
Pay attention to your orig. FreeBSD slice while doing this and have a
bootable rescue CD near you.

HTH,
Leon

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