Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:29:05 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re-partitioning FreeBSD system "on the fly" Message-ID: <200002232129.QAA09250@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:19:51 PST." <200002232119.NAA01158@ptavv.es.net>
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>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? No. This is plain old ufs. Under the covers sysinstall is just running newfs. >It looks like this should be >possible, but I don't feel really comfortable about it. Good. Trust your instincts! :-) -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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