From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 21:17:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8258716A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:17:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6437843D1F for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:17:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (62-240-248-216.adsl.freesurf.fr [62.240.248.216]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7720E2A49A9 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:17:52 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41D4708A.3050901@gautherot.net> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:18:02 +0100 From: Olivier Gautherot User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Decent partition editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:17:54 -0000 Hi folks! I was reorganizing my hard-disks these days to suppress all Linux and ext2fs stuff - I finally decided I wanted to keep just FreeBSD on my desktop at home. The 2 disks were scattered in 8 partitions in total and I decided to group some of them. That's where the headaches started... I tried to use fdisk but the syntax is complex - I'm sure it is a powerful tool but changing partitions is not a game where you just take a chance: when your data are gone... they *ARE* gone. I tried also sysinstall but, for some reason, the partition table was not updated (I just mean to extend the /home partition, not install a new system). If you take Windows, Linux or BeOS, they all come with a decent editor. In the end, I spent more time on the FreeBSD man pages than { shutting down FreeBSD, booting Zeta (the new BeOS), opening the partition editor, 3 mouse clicks (to unlock the partitions, select the partition type and commit the changes), moving a slider to the appropriate size, shutting down Zeta and booting FreeBSD }. It worked like a charm. Does anyone know if there is such an editor in the ports? I have not seen any but it would be damn good... Thanks in advance Olivier P.S. please copy me on follow ups as I not subscribed to this list.