Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:40:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: judmarc@fastmail.fm (Jud) Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Resizing disk partitons? Message-ID: <200308291340.h7TDewGO002299@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <oprunv4fa50cf2rk@fastmail.fm> from "Jud" at Aug 29, 2003 06:15:41 AM
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> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:21:28 -0400, stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote: > > > I've got a laptop with a single hard disk that is curently paritioned > > into > > 3 partions. 1 for FreeBSD, 1 for linux Swap, and a 3rd for Linux. > > > > I've got an application that requires a M$ OS. Is there a way I can > > repartion this drive without having to reinstall bith my other OS'es? > > I don't know the answer, but have two possibilities to suggest for further > research: Partition Magic and gpart (with or without gui front ends). I > don't know if the former mangles non-Win partitions when resizing, and > I've never used the latter. Partition Magic and others can handle the resizing. That is the easy part. The hard part is moving the contents of the slices. They don't do that. Generally I think you will have to back up everything, recreate the slices and create boot records and then restore everything. If you can buy a nice [bigger] disk and add it, and then build things on the new disk and then switch it in to the boot position, that would probably be the easiest and cleanest way to do it. ////jerry > > Jud > _______________________________________________
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