adding unused disk space for FreeBSD

[Ean Kingston]

On July 9, 2005 11:07 am, you wrote:
> Thanks, Ean,  for your reply.
> I tried it as you proposed.
> The problem is that when it comes to saving the changes the following
> message pops up: 'ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4!'
Did you run it as root? 

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>
> Carlo.
>
> >-- Original-Nachricht --
> >From: Ean Kingston <ean at hedron.org>
> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:52:20 -0400
> >Subject: Re: adding unused disk space for FreeBSD
> >
> >On July 9, 2005 09:04 am, carlo.matteotti at bluewin.ch wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> I have a FreeBSD slice (/dev/ad4s3) on which my FreeBSD system lives and
> >> some unused free diskspace (resulting from deletion of another OS (no
>
> names
>
> >> :-))) on the harddisk. I'd like to use this free diskspace with FreeBSD.
> >>
> >> I was unable to figure out how to do that using 'fdisk and friends'.
> >
> >You can do it on the command line with fdisk, bsdlabel, and newfs. It is
> >a bit
> >easier to explain using sysinstall so, here is the sysinstall way:
> >
> >#/stand/sysinstall
> >	Configure->Fdisk->(select the disk)->(select the unused slice)->T(to
> > change
> >
> >type to FreeBSD)->W(to save the changes)...
> >	Label->choose the disk and start creating partitions->be sure to make the
> >new
> >slices for newfs
> >
> >--
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> >
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