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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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