how to delete a partition/FS

Ylanday69 · Post by **Ylanday69** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:00 pm

the other day i created a new fs for gentoox and i thought that hdd's read 1000 mb as 1 gb so i wanna delete that one and create a new one thats 2-3 gigs so if anyones got any pointers for me it would be much appreciated thx

Post by **ShALLaX** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:38 pm

export fsname="WHATEVER"; umount /mnt/${fsname}; rm -rf /mnt/${fsname}; rm -rf /mnt/fatx/f/${fsname}; grep -v ${fsname} /etc/fstab > /etc/fstab2; mv /etc/fstab2 /etc/fstab

Then rerun `magic newfs`

Of course, change WHATEVER to the actual filesystem name.

That should work

Ylanday69 · Post by **Ylanday69** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 10:52 am

thx shALL, ur the man!!!