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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:06:16 +0400
From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Shrinking slices to make room for linux
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On 6/14/05, Richard Lupton <r.lupton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> 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...

You probably can also use a Linux Live CD (like Knoppix), without
resising your disks at all.

--=20
Dmitry

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