From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 13:19:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1151D37B8B8 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01158 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:19:51 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200002232119.NAA01158@ptavv.es.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re-partitioning FreeBSD system "on the fly" Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:19:51 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a FreeBSD system on a 13 GB disk which I really want to re-partition by trimming the 12 GB /usr partition back to 9 GB and creating a new partition of 3 GB. Is there a safe way to do this without dumping the partition, re-partitioning, and restoring it? It looks like this should be possible, but I don't feel really comfortable about it. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message