From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 16:58:34 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 4F07B16A400 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:58:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5EF13C4BF for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:58:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2UGvJmn059646; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:57:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l2UGvJYu059645; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:57:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:57:18 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: John L Message-ID: <20070330165718.GA59613@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20070330025031.73483.qmail@simone.iecc.com> <20070330155217.GC59175@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070330123845.M39994@simone.iecc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070330123845.M39994@simone.iecc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Jerry McAllister , 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 16:58:34 -0000 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