Rereading the question - you can do the same partition expansion if you are using the installation image, not the live image. If you want to reuse the remaining space for another reason, then I guess you could use fdisk to create partitions past the first NetBSD one and format these, but I've never tried it.
On 24 November 2017 at 12:52, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course not. > > Boot the stick single user, use fdisk to adjust the first partition to the > end, use disklabel to extend the label to the en of the disk (A), then > readjust the existing partitions (I move the b-partition to the end, > adjusting a from the almost start to some space before the end for swap, > then after writing the label use 'fsck -fy /dev/rsd0a' or wherever it is, > then 'resize_ffs -y /dev/rsd0a', then again ; fsck -fy /dev/rsd0a'. > > This is my usual installation method on USB stick - I always build live > images, dump them onto a USB stick, SD card or even SATA disk, then whilst > on the NetBSD host I perform manually the above procedure, even configure > the networking etc. > > Chavdar Ivanov > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 at 08:18 Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-de...@yahoo.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a 16GB usb stick on which I will install the usb installation >> image. This way I would waste 15GB of free space. Can I reclaim the >> free space at all? If so, can I install NetBSD on the free space? >> >> I believe one could partition the drive during instalation but I have >> no clue how. >> >> Any help appreciated. >> >> -- >> Ottavio Caruso >> > -- ----