Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: collins@collins-ca.com (Chris Collins) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it Possible to shrink a FBSD Partition? Message-ID: <200405131336.i4DDaRl25899@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040513005953.M40545@collins-ca.com> from "Chris Collins" at May 12, 2004 08:01:36 PM
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> > Hello > > Is there any easy way to shrink a freebsd partition? When I created the > slice (I think it is called) I used the complete drive. In general, no. > I need some space to create another partition and do not wish to reinstall > FBSD. This machine has been up and running for sometime and to do a > reinstall would be a big pain. You are pretty much limited to making a backup of each file system separately and then redoing the drive partitioning and then restoring the backups. > I have tried partition majic then reading some info online it does not look > like it can handle the job. Partition Magic only works on slices and not FreeBSD partitions. If you mean that you want to shrink a slice, then still you will need to make backups and then redo the slices and then rebuild the FreBSD partitions and then restore each file system in to the new partitions. ////jerry > > I am running 4.8 Stable. > > Any info would be great. > > Thanks > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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