atom feed4 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsRe: Partition resizing under FreeBSD
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Jesse ManningMay 4, 1998 7:49 pm 
Doug WhiteMay 5, 1998 1:38 pm 
Greg LeheyMay 5, 1998 5:47 pm 
Doug WhiteMay 5, 1998 9:03 pm 
Subject:Re: Partition resizing under FreeBSD
From:Doug White (dwh@gdi.uoregon.edu)
Date:May 5, 1998 1:38:59 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

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: dwh@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major

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