Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:48:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: resizing partitions Message-ID: <20010122114831.D3066@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010121161633.A10949@arrakis.desert-power.org>; from mwithers@one.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:15:53PM -0500 References: <20010121161633.A10949@arrakis.desert-power.org>
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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
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