Date: 31 Aug 2002 20:43:29 +1000 From: Crispin Bennett <crispin@crisweb.webcentral.com.au> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Resizing BSD slices & partitions? Message-ID: <1030790609.55584.13.camel@jupiter.mshome.net>
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Hi, I installed FreeBSD (4.6.2 stable) on my notebook less than a week ago, and am so impressed I'm already using it more than the Win XP installation I have on the same machine. However, I installed FreeBSD on too small a partition (thinking at the time it was just an experiment). If I have to I'll shrink the Win XP partition, and re-install FreeBSD, but I'd really rather avoid having to compile Gnome2 again! If this was a Linux partition I'd just use Partition Magic to resize -- but I don't know enough about the BSD slicing/partitioning scheme to know if this is possible. Partition Magic does recognise the BSD slice, and offers the option to resize it. Could anyone tell me if 1) It is possible to resize (make larger) the BSD slice without causing FreeBSD to panic, and then if so 2) what happens to the extra space created inside that slice? Can I resize a BSD partition within that, or would I have to make another partition and mount that? 3) If a BSD-partition resize is possible,what utilities are there that can do this? Thanks in advance. Cris Bennett. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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