Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:08:30 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti <pietro@sdf.lonestar.org> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Magic -like Message-ID: <4215F6DE.9060209@sdf.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <20050218064500.G46302@starfire.mn.org> References: <4215CBA0.6090901@sdf.lonestar.org> <20050218064500.G46302@starfire.mn.org>
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Hi John, yes I was looking for a better solution ;-) Thank you! It's a laptop, cannot add a disk.... John wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:04:00AM +0000, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > >>Hi all, >>does anybody know a tool like partition magic which works on FreeBSD? >>I have all my harddisk partitioned for FreeBSD, and now I need a Windows >>partition... any other solutions? > > > I hope you find a better answer, but the only way I know of to do > what I think it is you are proposing is this: > 1) dump out all the filesystems that need to be resized or moved > (tape, files on an NFS server, another disk drive - whatever) > 2) re-slice (fdisk from a fixit disk or bootable CD) > 3) restore all the filesystems > > I hope you find a better way, but at least it can be done in this way. > > I take it that adding a disk or replacing the disk with a larger > one is not an option? -- Pietro Cerutti -- Powered by FreeBSD -- SDF Public Access UNIX System sdf.lonestar.org
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