Moving/Removing Filesystems

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:12:55PM -0500, Tom Moyer wrote:
> I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive
> and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill
> the entire disk.  Is there an easy way to do that without formatting
> the entire hard drive.  I've updated the system to 5-STABLE and have
> installed many ports and I don't want to lose that (limited
> bandwidth).
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom

Poke around in the FAQs at freebsd.org.  Here is one little tutorial on
adding a new harddisk to a system.  Your not adding a new physical disk,
but the principles will the same.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html

Also see this document:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#ADDING-DISKS

Nathan
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