Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:42:17 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: Richard Lupton <r.lupton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shrinking slices to make room for linux Message-ID: <b7052e1e050614124217feb83b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <303718d9050614081452d70915@mail.gmail.com> References: <303718d9050614081452d70915@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/14/05, Richard Lupton <r.lupton@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (my first use of FreeBSD) > onto a Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop, dual booting with Windows. However, > now I would like to install a Linux distro to see if the ACPI support > is any different and so on. I have plenty of space on the FreeBSD > slice, so is there anyway of shrinking the slice without loosing the > data on it (maybe something like GNU parted)? The only references I > have found to this sort of thing are to do with making FreeBSD slices > bigger... In addition to what Jerry said, if you indeed just installed it, why you can't just reinstall it, leaving more space for other operating systems this time? --=20 Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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