Subject: Re: Using more than 1 NetBSD partition
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/21/2004 09:09:31
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:15:39PM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
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> I previously partitioned my disk for dual-boot, but now I don't need=20
> that other partition anymore. I'd like to use the now "free" space.
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> Is it possible to use more than one sector 0 NetBSD partition?
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> Or can I re-fdisk (without wiping) so that partition 0 (NetBSD) takes up=
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> the whole disk, and modify the disklabel to use the whole disk, then=20
> just create new partitions?

You can just edit the disklabel to eat the unused space.  NetBSD
disklabels don't care about MBR partitions, and you can happily
point to data outside the NetBSD slice.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"Commala-come-five! / Even when the shadows rise!
To see the world and walk the world / Makes ya glad to be alive."
Susannah's Song, The Dark Tower VI, Stephen King, 2004.

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