From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 4:53: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C55150C6 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:48:57 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179682@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: "'Ronald F. Guilmette'" , Ladavac Marino Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Desperate to shrink a partition Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:43:22 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald F. Guilmette [SMTP:rfg@monkeys.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 1:24 PM > To: Ladavac Marino > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition > > > In message > <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179681@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>, yo > u wrote: > > >> From: Ronald F. Guilmette [SMTP:rfg@monkeys.com] > >> ... > >> I desperately need to shrink a partition... > > > [ML] dump all (neigboring) partitions. > > delete and re-create partitions in the partition editor. > > restore all dumped partititons. > > No can do. > > Alright, Let me tell you my sad story. > [ML] As far as I can see, short of adding a disk with a nice fat b partition so that you can swap and dump onto it, and a nice big additional partition which you can use for /var/crash, you are out of luck. Maybe you manage to talk these nice far away people into adding a disk you mail them. /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message