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From: Jeff Dickson <jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Making another partition
Date: 8 May 1996 19:58:28 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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I have half of the hard disk devoted to FreeBSD. The other half used to have
Linux on it - maybe still does. Just the same I'd like to reuse the space. I
thought of using the installation utility for this, but stopped short when
I read that changes to the partition table could wipe out all the data. I know
reinstalling FreeBSD from scratch is one way, but maybe that`s the hard way.
Comments?

Jeff S. Dickson
jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov