From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 19:57:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E86106567A for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2448FC12 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:57:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from localhost ([71.249.92.53]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K58004V8Y3ZIGW0@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:57:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:57:35 -0400 From: David Gurvich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080807155735.326b3f48@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Resizing partitions and slices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:57:47 -0000 I have a hard drive with one slice and 3 partitions. Only two partitions are actually being used. I would like to delete the 3rd partition, resize the slice, and create a second slice the size of the deleted partition. Is there a safe way, one that preserves the data on the other 2 partitions, that this can be done?