From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 5:30: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA2E37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 05:30:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [63.246.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0510E43F79 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 05:30:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id IAA18102 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 08:31:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User stanb [pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 196 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18exiZ-0000pl-00 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:29:59 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 08:29:59 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Resizing partions Message-ID: <20030201132959.GA3102@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20030201014032.GA23426@teddy.fas.com> <20030201114550.GD84798@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030201114550.GD84798@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 08:20:13 up 13 days, 12:40, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:45:50AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:40:32PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I've got a laptop that I originaly partioned inot a windoze, and FreeBSD > > partiton. I'm going to upgrade this unit this weekend, and I wnat to > > concatenate the 2 partions. Is there a way to do this? (Yes, it's the m$ > > parition I'm nuking). > > > > The easiest way to do what you want is to back-up all the files and > stuff you want to keep from your existing FreeBSD and Windows > installations, and then just re-install FreeBSD over the whole disk. > That will give you one fdisk(8) slice (ad0s1) containing the FreeBSD > disklabel(8) partitions (ad0s1a, ad0s1b etc.) Yhanks, I geuss I should do this, (the backup & reinstall), but i'm trying to get it doen over the weekend. I was hoping to find a free tool like partition magic, I guess that there is no such tool? I looked a GNU parted, and it did not look like it was ready to do this for FreeBSD (yet ?). -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message