From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 4:20:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F1F15067 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA39332; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:19:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:19:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition In-Reply-To: <10174.929617127@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I desperately need to shrink a partition. (Don't ask why. It is a long > ugly story.) >=20 > Can anyone suggest the best way to do this? Partition Magic (commercial) can be used to shrink FAT and VFAT partitions (see also fips.exe and presizer.exe in the tools directory). PM can move - not resize - BSD (and Linux) partitions. I don't know any tool to shrink a BSD partition. // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _____= __=20 // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __= / _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/= // / // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___= /____/=20 // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----= - // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message