Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:13:44 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Eugene Lee <list-freebsd@fsck.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resizing partitions in the same slice Message-ID: <40532528.80406@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040312230210.GC16477@Dark-Age.local> References: <20040312184702.GA16477@Dark-Age.local> <200403121922.i2CJMLa19763@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20040312230210.GC16477@Dark-Age.local>
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Eugene Lee wrote: [ ... ] > I'm a little surprised. I would think that resizing partitions is a > common request, that the idea of growing one partition while shrinking > another is not a new or rare notion. Can anyone else share their views > or experiences? The list archives contain few comments on the subject. Resizing partitions is a common request. FreeBSD has some support for RAID-0 capabilities, ie concatenation which let one grow a volume or filesystem, but the problem of shrinking an existing partition with data on it is much harder. That is something that one really wants a backup for, in which case one can take a backup, repartition, and restore your data. > BTW, some places have recommended commercial solution like Norton Ghost > or Partition Magic. Do these products work on FreeBSD's UFS format and > grok partitions-in-a-slice? Sorry, I believe the answer is no. -- -Chuck
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