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Old 22nd March 2010
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Originally Posted by ros2468 View Post
Is there something wrong in that?
Yes. You are making the assumption that a disklabel(8) partition equals an MBR partition, & this simply isn't true.

If you delete a disklabel(8) partition, all that you are doing is freeing up space within the OpenBSD A6 MBR partition + destroying the filesystem used by your present installation. Any space freed within the OpenBSD A6 MBR partition cannot be reclaimed by another MBR partition.

Likewise, only one OpenBSD A6 partition can be exist on a disk. jggimi has already mentioned this.

If you proceed with your current idea, you will most likely render your OpenBSD installation unusable, but as stated before, provide the complete output of the following command:

$ df -h

...if you want a more definitive answer on just how unusable your system will become. Again, any space freed cannot be used for another MBR partition.

If you want a FAT32 partition, you will need to reinstall.

You really need to spend time studying Section 4 of the FAQ.
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