From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 02:18:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA22152 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 02:18:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from nectech.nectech.co.uk (nectech.nectech.co.uk [194.129.183.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA22081 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 02:17:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from <@host200-253.neceur.com:Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>) Received: from host200-253.neceur.com by nectech.nectech.co.uk id aa22648; 24 Nov 97 10:25 GMT Received: by exchange with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:12:54 -0000 Message-ID: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B3D32D7@exchange> From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Cc: "'jbergero@cgocable.ca'" Subject: RE: HD space Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:12:52 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk BexBox wrote: >Hi , I got a serious problem... > > Let me shows you an example, If I want to install FreeBSD on a 30 MB >partition I will never have enough space I know that , but if I try it >will tell me that the partition is full during the setup. And now come >my problem, I am a win95 user, so I want that space back for my windows, >but this space is lost somewhere I dont know, if I want it back I have >to create a new partition like d: but I want this space back on my c: >... I dont want to create a new partition to get this "lost space" back >everytime my setup is stop for any reason... > >Anyone can help ? I really need this help! > > >Thanks I bet you used the 'fips' utility to shrink your C partition to make some space for the FreeBSD partition. I did this in the past for a Linux install and all was fine. The problem comes when you want to 'grow' the C partition using 'fips'. It seems that fips will not enlarge a partition, only shrink one. It was a while since I used fips, so maybe it's fixed now. The only way to get your space back on C is either to repartition the disk (complete reinstall), or find a program like 'fips' that will enlarge an existing partition. Maybe that program 'partition magic' will do it for you. This costs money though :-(. Jeff --------------------------------------------------- Jeffery Bond ---------------------------------------------------