From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 17:18:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8FF37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3E1376AC18; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:48:32 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:48:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Mark B. Withers" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: resizing partitions Message-ID: <20010122114831.D3066@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010121161633.A10949@arrakis.desert-power.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010121161633.A10949@arrakis.desert-power.org>; from mwithers@one.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:15:53PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 21 January 2001 at 16:15:53 -0500, Mark B. Withers wrote: > Hey folks! > > Is there a way to non-destructively resize partitions in FreeBSD? Yes. > When I was a Linux user, there was a program called fips, but I'm > not sure that it will work with a "dangerously-dedicated" FreeBSD > machine. FIPS is a Microsoft domain program for resizing Microsoft file systems. It won't work with FreeBSD, or Linux for that matter. The correct tool on a dedicated system is disklabel(8). You can increase the size of a partition without problems, but you can't shrink or move a file system partition without destroying the data. If you increase the size of a file system partition, you then need to run growfs (currently available only in -CURRENT). Play with it at your peril. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message