Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:34:22 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition Message-ID: <199906171634.JAA16494@deal1.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:23:35 PDT." <10772.929618615@monkeys.com>
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In message <10772.929618615@monkeys.com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" cleopede: >Now the problem: When this system was setup (and partitioned) initially >it had a MUCH bigger swap space than physical memory. It has since had >physical memory added however. It now has 320MB physical and only a >single 140MB swap partition setup for it. There are NO free partitions >and adding another drive to the thing now would be a MAJOR hassle, >and the people who are hosting it for me (far far away) probably will >*not* want to even try doing that, even if I ship them a new/additional >disk drive for the system. Any chance of (1) having them pull some of the memory, or (2) creating a debug kernel that ignores most of it? (Of course, this may eliminate the rebooting.) Also, the traditional way to resize partitions is to go into single user mode, do a backup of the world, fiddle the partitions, and restore the world. Sometimes if the data is extra-important, you back it up twice. -Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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