From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 31 5:10:26 2002 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 CF63137B400 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 05:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu (smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2415C43E3B for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 05:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cd9@buffalo.edu) Received: (qmail 20279 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2002 12:10:17 -0000 Received: from ubppp233-23.dialin.buffalo.edu (HELO selvirjin.buffalo.edu) (128.205.233.23) by smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 31 Aug 2002 12:10:17 -0000 Received: from dragon by selvirjin.buffalo.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17l74P-0008lJ-00; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 08:09:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 08:09:41 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" To: Crispin Bennett Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Resizing BSD slices & partitions? Message-ID: <20020831080941.C33461@selvirjin.buffalo.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Crispin Bennett , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <1030790609.55584.13.camel@jupiter.mshome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1030790609.55584.13.camel@jupiter.mshome.net>; from crispin@crisweb.webcentral.com.au on Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:43:29PM +1000 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 At approximately Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:43:29PM +1000, Crispin Bennett scribbled: > Hi, > > I installed FreeBSD (4.6.2 stable) on my notebook less than a week ago, > and am so impressed I'm already using it more than the Win XP > installation I have on the same machine. > > However, I installed FreeBSD on too small a partition (thinking at the > time it was just an experiment). If I have to I'll shrink the Win XP > partition, and re-install FreeBSD, but I'd really rather avoid having to > compile Gnome2 again! > > If this was a Linux partition I'd just use Partition Magic to resize -- > but I don't know enough about the BSD slicing/partitioning scheme to > know if this is possible. Partition Magic does recognise the BSD slice, > and offers the option to resize it. > > Could anyone tell me if 1) It is possible to resize (make larger) the > BSD slice without causing FreeBSD to panic, and then if so 2) what > happens to the extra space created inside that slice? Can I resize a BSD > partition within that, or would I have to make another partition and > mount that? 3) If a BSD-partition resize is possible,what utilities are > there that can do this? > > Thanks in advance. > > Cris Bennett. > Before letting Partition Magic have at your drive, back up /usr/ports/distfiles--it contains all the source for all the ports you've built, unless you've been using 'make distclean'. If you've downloaded Gnome2 from the net, that was a lot of bandwidth.... growfs(8) might be useful, but using symlinks like jerry suggested would be a lot easier. -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message