Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:57:18 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: John L <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd@dfwlp.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving paritions around Message-ID: <20070330165718.GA59613@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070330123845.M39994@simone.iecc.com> References: <20070330025031.73483.qmail@simone.iecc.com> <20070330155217.GC59175@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070330123845.M39994@simone.iecc.com>
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:41:34PM -0400, John L wrote: > >>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. Wrong tools for the cirsumstances. If it would work, it would still be the harder way. ////jerry > > R's, > John
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