From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 13:08:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9738D16A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:08:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cpanel02.rubas.net (cpanel02.rubas.net [62.216.182.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4417843D6B for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:08:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from 95.221.186.195.cust.bluewin.ch ([195.186.221.95] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by cpanel02.rubas.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1D27s8-0000Ta-O6; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:08:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4215F6DE.9060209@sdf.lonestar.org> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:08:30 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041231) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John References: <4215CBA0.6090901@sdf.lonestar.org> <20050218064500.G46302@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050218064500.G46302@starfire.mn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel02.rubas.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sdf.lonestar.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Magic -like X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:08:43 -0000 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