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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 13:39:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jesse Manning <knightmare@cyberdude.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partition resizing under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505133758.25528H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <341C9B64.A309C34E@cyberdude.com>

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On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Jesse Manning wrote:

> I want to resize a FreeBSD partition. /stand/sysinstall won't let me get
> rid of some free space I have. I want to make it available to my Win95
> partition. And Partition Magic won't recongize the free space in the
> FreeBSD partition. Is there a program/port I can use for this?

You can't resize partitions without doing it the hard way -- backup,
newfs, restore.  For efficiency the UFS filesystem makes full use of the
space you give it.  It's not like FAT that fills the disk incrementally.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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