From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 26 13:37:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B04414CCC for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:37:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10GUwR-0006eR-00; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:37:03 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:37:01 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "Joseph T. Lee" Cc: Yev , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resizing partitions? In-Reply-To: <19990226130039.B5356@la.best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > -- > Joseph nugundam =best=com==/==\=IIGS=/==\=Playstation=/==\=Civic HX CVT=/==\ > # Anime Expo 1998 >> www.anime-expo.org/ > > # Redline Games >> www.redlinegames.com/ > > # Cal-Animage Epsilon >> www.best.com/~nugundam/epsilon/ > > # EX: The Online World of Anime & Manga >> www.ex.org/ / > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message