Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:41:34 -0400 (EDT) From: John L <johnl@iecc.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd@dfwlp.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving paritions around Message-ID: <20070330123845.M39994@simone.iecc.com> In-Reply-To: <20070330155217.GC59175@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20070330025031.73483.qmail@simone.iecc.com> <20070330155217.GC59175@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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>> Boot from a CD, change the partition table to make the FreeBSD partition >> start right after the Windows partition > > Well, sort of maybe. Do you mean the partition table or slice table? It's the think that fdisk manages, which I guess in BSD-ese is the slice table. > First, I am guessing that you used some utility to officially shrink > the slice (windows primary partition) where MS-Win is installed. Right. > So, delete the existing FreeBSD slice with fdisk (or in sysinstall) > and then create a new one that encompasses all the left over space. OK. >> Use dd to move down the existing FreeBSD partition data so it starts >> at the beginning of the new partition > > No, this is no good. You cannot reuse the old partition data on the > new slice because the new slice is a different size. I know it's a different size. I figured I'd go in with bsdlabel and fix up the partitition table after I dd'ed it up, then use growfs. R's, John
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