From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 16:41:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7139116A400 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:41:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=johnl=06029759c3@iecc.com) Received: from tom.iecc.com (tom.iecc.com [208.31.42.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F167413C46E for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:41:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=johnl=06029759c3@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 27889 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2007 16:41:34 -0000 Received: from gal.iecc.com (208.31.42.53) by mail.iecc.com with QMQP; 30 Mar 2007 16:41:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Mar 2007 16:41:34 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:41:34 -0400 (EDT) From: John L To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <20070330155217.GC59175@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Message-ID: <20070330123845.M39994@simone.iecc.com> References: <20070330025031.73483.qmail@simone.iecc.com> <20070330155217.GC59175@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Cleverness: None detected MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd@dfwlp.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving paritions around X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:41:38 -0000 >> 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