From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 06:41:03 2003 Return-Path: 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 061FD16A4D9 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6919743FFB for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7TDexOg002300; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7TDewGO002299; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:40:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200308291340.h7TDewGO002299@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: judmarc@fastmail.fm (Jud) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:40:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Jud" at Aug 29, 2003 06:15:41 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: stan cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Resizing disk partitons? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:41:03 -0000 > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:21:28 -0400, stan wrote: > > > I've got a laptop with a single hard disk that is curently paritioned > > into > > 3 partions. 1 for FreeBSD, 1 for linux Swap, and a 3rd for Linux. > > > > I've got an application that requires a M$ OS. Is there a way I can > > repartion this drive without having to reinstall bith my other OS'es? > > I don't know the answer, but have two possibilities to suggest for further > research: Partition Magic and gpart (with or without gui front ends). I > don't know if the former mangles non-Win partitions when resizing, and > I've never used the latter. Partition Magic and others can handle the resizing. That is the easy part. The hard part is moving the contents of the slices. They don't do that. Generally I think you will have to back up everything, recreate the slices and create boot records and then restore everything. If you can buy a nice [bigger] disk and add it, and then build things on the new disk and then switch it in to the boot position, that would probably be the easiest and cleanest way to do it. ////jerry > > Jud > _______________________________________________