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From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
To: "'Ronald F. Guilmette'" <rfg@monkeys.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Desperate to shrink a partition
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:02:28 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ronald F. Guilmette [SMTP:rfg@monkeys.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 17, 1999 12:59 PM
> To:	questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	Desperate to shrink a partition
> 
> 
> 
> I desperately need to shrink a partition.  (Don't ask why.  It is a
> long
> ugly story.)
	[ML]  dump all (neigboring) partitions.
		delete and re-create partitions in the partition editor.
		restore all dumped partititons.

		There is no other way to resize an FFS.

	/Marino

> Can anyone suggest the best way to do this?
> 
> 
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