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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:08:30 +0000
From:      Pietro Cerutti <pietro@sdf.lonestar.org>
To:        John <john@starfire.mn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partition Magic -like
Message-ID:  <4215F6DE.9060209@sdf.lonestar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050218064500.G46302@starfire.mn.org>
References:  <4215CBA0.6090901@sdf.lonestar.org> <20050218064500.G46302@starfire.mn.org>

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Hi John,
yes I was looking for a better solution ;-) Thank you!

It's a laptop, cannot add a disk....

John wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:04:00AM +0000, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>does anybody know a tool like partition magic which works on FreeBSD?
>>I have all my harddisk partitioned for FreeBSD, and now I need a Windows 
>>partition... any other solutions?
> 
> 
> I hope you find a better answer, but the only way I know of to do
> what I think it is you are proposing is this:
> 1) dump out all the filesystems that need to be resized or moved
>    (tape, files on an NFS server, another disk drive - whatever)
> 2) re-slice (fdisk from a fixit disk or bootable CD)
> 3) restore all the filesystems
> 
> I hope you find a better way, but at least it can be done in this way.
> 
> I take it that adding a disk or replacing the disk with a larger
> one is not an option?


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