From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 16:46:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 71F4916A41C for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:46:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B53143D5C for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:46:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j5EGkDJF012740; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:46:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j5EGkDjI012739; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:46:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200506141646.j5EGkDjI012739@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: r.lupton@gmail.com Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:46:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <303718d9050614081452d70915@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shrinking slices to make room for linux 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: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:46:14 -0000 > > Hello, > > I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (my first use of FreeBSD) > onto a Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop, dual booting with Windows. However, > now I would like to install a Linux distro to see if the ACPI support > is any different and so on. I have plenty of space on the FreeBSD > slice, so is there anyway of shrinking the slice without loosing the > data on it (maybe something like GNU parted)? The only references I > have found to this sort of thing are to do with making FreeBSD slices > bigger... Your best bet is to back up everything in the FreeBSD slice - each partition. Then rebuild the disk slices and repartition and newfs, leaving room for your LNX slice. Then restore the dumps in to the new FreeBSD partitions. Growing FreeBSD partitions works ok under ideal circumstances, but shrinking is not going to work. Good luck, ////jerry > > Thanks, > Richard > _______________________________________________ > 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" > >