From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Oct 8 07:27:22 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9C4C050E2 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2016 07:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com", Issuer "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80753C28 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2016 07:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from [74.134.208.22] ([74.134.208.22:10190] helo=localhost) by dnvrco-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 50/6A-26444-3DF98F75; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 07:27:15 +0000 Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 07:26:45 +0000 Message-ID: <50.6A.26444.3DF98F75@dnvrco-omsmta03> From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Olaoluwa Omokanwaiye Subject: Re: Hi, a dual booting and printing question References: <90FD08FD-FE91-4C6C-943C-0B58B072AE29@me.com> <20161005184752.2f7784a3@KoggyBSD.org> X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.88:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 07:27:22 -0000 > Thanks Thomas, > Your advise is really appreciated. > Permit me to continue to ask for help as needed. > I have FreeBSD some 190GB of disk space but it used just a few during installation now I have extra space, is there a way I can extend the disk space so FreeBSD can occupy all or would you suggest I experiment installing another > BSD type like NetBSD to occupy the space. I will definitely need help with installing a third OS so it does not complicate matters. > As regards printing , oh yes it's HP printer, pls tell me there's a solution and kindly share. > Yeah I am reading the hand book but you know there are somethings they don't just talk about like here. > Hope to hear from you more and learn from you > Ola I have never resized a partition with data, am not sure how you can shrink a BSD partition. I see there is a growfs but don't know about shrinking a file system. I would have a better idea if I could see your partition table, like "gpart show ada0" or whatever. Did you say you had Ubuntu installed? How is printing under Ubuntu? I was able to print using a file from print/foo2zjs from NetBSD pkgsrc, might also work with the FreeBSD port. In NetBSD, I couldn't build the package but was able to extract the necessary file. I used cups but am not sure if hplip had anything to do with my limited success. I was unsuccessful with fax and scan. Posting to the FreeBSD list is better than emailing to me alone because others might be able to help. Tom