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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:37:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "Joseph T. Lee" <nugundam@la.best.com>
Cc:        Yev <phate1@ix.netcom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: resizing partitions?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902261335120.11993-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19990226130039.B5356@la.best.com>

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On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Joseph T. Lee wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 10:44:19PM -0500, Yev wrote:
> > Will it ever be possible to resize existing partitions? a la fips?
> 
> Well, one option is if you do multi-boot and windows is one of them
> partitions, you can try using PartitionMagic or Partition Commander.

  Well, except that PartionMagic has no idea of how to extend UFS
filesytems.  I don't think it will extend the partition until it can
extend the filesystem too.  I recall a special version of newfs that could
append unallocated space at the end of a filesystem, to that filesystem.

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Tom



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