On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:21:53AM -0700, Christopher A. Kantarjiev wrote:
> when I set up one of my netbsd x64 machines, I used some tool to partition 
> the
> disk via the MBR into two halves, thinking I'd also load openbsd.
> 
> Now I want to use that disk space for netbsd, but I can't figure out what 
> tool
> to use to get me the rest of the disk. mbrlabel seems willing to add a new 
> 'i'
> partition for the unused space - is that enough to do the trick? That would 
> be
> OK with me, though the 'right' thing would be to combine h and i. Not very
> important, though.
> 
[...]
>  c: 163846872        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0*- 
>  162546*)
>  d: 321672960         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 - 
>  319119)
>  e:  16778160   4260879     4.2BSD   1024  8192 46608  # (Cyl.   4227*-  
>  20872*)
>  f:     66528  21039039     4.2BSD   1024  8192  8320  # (Cyl.  20872*-  
>  20938*)
>  g:   2097648  21105567     4.2BSD   1024  8192 45608  # (Cyl.  20938*-  
>  23019*)
>  h: 140643720  23203215     4.2BSD   1024  8192 46640  # (Cyl.  23019*- 
>  162546*)
>  i: 157812106 163846935    unknown                     # (Cyl. 162546*- 
>  319106*)
> 
> Not updating disk label.

You could just do 'fdisk -u wd0', remove the second partition and extent
the first one to the end of the disk. Then use 'disklabel -i wd0' to
correct the entry for c, and extend h.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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