Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 21:21:44 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: evan@falcon.sourcee.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning a freebsd partition on the fly Message-ID: <199906060421.VAA14848@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990601131050.A27372@falcon.sourcee.com>
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In article <19990601131050.A27372@falcon.sourcee.com>, Evan Tsoukalas
<evan@falcon.sourcee.com> 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?
The only way to shrink it is like this:
* back up the filesystem to someplace using dump
* shrink the partition
* run newfs to create a filesystem on the resized partition
* restore the data from your backup
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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