From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 06:36:30 2004 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 54ED216A4CF for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 06:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F9D43D5A for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 06:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i4DDaRl25899; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200405131336.i4DDaRl25899@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: collins@collins-ca.com (Chris Collins) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20040513005953.M40545@collins-ca.com> from "Chris Collins" at May 12, 2004 08:01:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it Possible to shrink a FBSD Partition? 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: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:36:30 -0000 > > Hello > > Is there any easy way to shrink a freebsd partition? When I created the > slice (I think it is called) I used the complete drive. In general, no. > I need some space to create another partition and do not wish to reinstall > FBSD. This machine has been up and running for sometime and to do a > reinstall would be a big pain. You are pretty much limited to making a backup of each file system separately and then redoing the drive partitioning and then restoring the backups. > I have tried partition majic then reading some info online it does not look > like it can handle the job. Partition Magic only works on slices and not FreeBSD partitions. If you mean that you want to shrink a slice, then still you will need to make backups and then redo the slices and then rebuild the FreBSD partitions and then restore each file system in to the new partitions. ////jerry > > I am running 4.8 Stable. > > Any info would be great. > > Thanks > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >