Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:39:31 -0400 From: "Brown, Steve" <Steve@nurserysupplies.com> To: "xnow xsnow" <esperto85@yahoo.com.br>, "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Partitions??? Message-ID: <C8A5F7626B37E342B36384C56E4AC30C37826D@wilee.nsi.local>
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You need to check out the gparted-livecd. This will allow you to grow = or shrink partitions, just like Partition Magic. It should work with = all the filesystems in question here. I have recently used it and will = never go back to Partition Magic. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php Once you have performed a shrink, you will have additional unpartitioned = space where you can load another OS if you want. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of xnow xsnow Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:54 AM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitions??? "Now, some people sometimes leave a chunk of disk that is not allocated in any of the primary slices with the thought of adding another bootable OS at some later time. But that is a different story. And even then, if what you are doing unexpectedly uses up your space, you would just create another FreeBSD slice in that held out space and put a nice large single partition in and move some things there and make a link. It is so much easier than resizing and risking losing stuff as in other unnamed systems." =20 Yea, more like that...I have many machines in my work, they have linux = reiserfs partitions, ext3...some FAT32, ntfs, and they are in full disk, = and i want to install fbsd there without any lose of any data. =20 When you said "you should create another fbsd slice(...) then make a = link" but these machines have no fbsd partition and never had, nor any = other partition besides the only one used by this other system, like a = 60GB disk with full with only only partition, like fat32. =20 I think growfs wouldn't help then. =20 <the other part> =20 I understood that 'boot0cfg -B ad0' would try to detect all of it = automatic, and yes in my situation it is ad0. =20 But since we have many different systems here, I am afraid some of = them don't get detected, is there any possibility?like windows xp, = windows 98, solaris, linux, I don't even know all of them, and if so, = any of them don't get detected automatic after boot0cfg -B ad0 i would = not have any idea of what to do. =20 On linux we have /etc/lilo.conf which i have manually full acess and = makes me be able to add anything, on fbsd i don't know... =20 But if you tell me it is able to detect anything automatic, I'd leave = this fear away and have fun tomorrow. =20 Thanks for your reply. =09 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Search M=FAsica para ver e ouvir: You're Beautiful, do James Blunt _______________________________________________ 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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