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From: erich@teal.csn.org (Eric Hilfer)
Subject: ANy way to mount full MS-DOS drive?
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I havee FreeBSD occupying a whole SCSI disk, and I have MSDOS
occupying a whole IDE disk (drive c:).

Is there any way I can put a FreeBSD disk label onto the IDE drive without
adding a partition for FreeBSD?  Will that allow me to mount the IDE drive
as a pcfs file system from FreeBSD?  I don't really want to take any space
on the IDE drive, since the MS-DOS partition already uses the whole disk.
If I have to, is there a way to shrink the MS-DOS partition without having
to erase the whole MS-DOS disk and reinstall everything?



Thanks,


Eric

erich@csn.org