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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:06:25 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Evan Tsoukalas <evan@falcon.sourcee.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partitioning a freebsd partition on the fly
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990601190023.41006B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990601131050.A27372@falcon.sourcee.com>

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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Evan Tsoukalas wrote:

> My question is, can I shrink my /usr partition down without losing what is on 
> it?  It is a 3.8 gig partition that only has 900 meg or so on it.  I would like to trim about a gigabyte off of it so that I can install Windoze.  Is this going
> to be possible, or should I start from scratch installing Winoze first? 

Resizing FFS filesystems is not possible.  In addition, I find that windoze 
deals with dual-boot machines much better if windows is installed first.



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