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To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Re-partitioning FreeBSD system "on the fly" 
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:29:05 -0500
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
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>I have a FreeBSD system on a 13 GB disk which I really want to
>re-partition by trimming the 12 GB /usr partition back to 9 GB and
>creating a new partition of 3 GB.
>
>Is there a safe way to do this without dumping the partition,
>re-partitioning, and restoring it?

No.  This is plain old ufs.  Under the covers sysinstall is just running
newfs.

>It looks like this should be
>possible, but I don't feel really comfortable about it.

Good.  Trust your instincts!  :-)

-Mitch


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