Making use of a Windows drive

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:33:52PM +0300, Razmig K wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I double-boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and my disk layout
> is as follows: Windows drive C in ad1s1, FreeBSD slice in ad1s2 and
> extended partition containing Windows drive D in ad1s3.
> I found that I no longer need to use ad1s3 as Windows drive D, so I
> would like to use that space in FreeBSD for user data.
> Is this task as simple as using sysinstall to prepare the slice,
> create partitions and define mount points for them?

Do you need partitions (bsdlabels) on ad1s3? Or to put it another way,
do you want to subdevide it in pieces that you can mount on different
mount points?

If not, you can just create a filesystem on it with 'newfs -U /dev/ad1s3',
and mount it somewhere.

Roland
-- 
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
[plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated]
pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914  B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20070715/8c49efe1/attachment.pgp