From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 1 17: 6:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B87714CC7 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 20733 invoked from network); 2 Jun 1999 00:06:29 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 2 Jun 1999 00:06:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (dscheidt@localhost) by shell-3.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id TAA41027; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:06:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell-3.enteract.com: dscheidt owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:06:25 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Evan Tsoukalas Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning a freebsd partition on the fly In-Reply-To: <19990601131050.A27372@falcon.sourcee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Evan Tsoukalas wrote: > My question is, can I shrink my /usr partition down without losing what is on > it? It is a 3.8 gig partition that only has 900 meg or so on it. I would like to trim about a gigabyte off of it so that I can install Windoze. Is this going > to be possible, or should I start from scratch installing Winoze first? Resizing FFS filesystems is not possible. In addition, I find that windoze deals with dual-boot machines much better if windows is installed first. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message