From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 14:56:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5155916A468 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:56:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [204.121.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB2E13C459 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:56:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3587EEC8464; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:56:02 -0700 (MST) X-CTN5-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mailwasher.lanl.gov Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B77EC8462; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:56:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19595EC83AC; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:56:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from oppie-mail.lanl.gov (oppie-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.123]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id m0FEu1WZ003860; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:56:01 -0700 Received: from [128.165.86.60] (p25dual1.lanl.gov [128.165.86.60]) by oppie-mail.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296001F8002; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:55:57 -0700 (MST) From: James Harrison To: Aryeh Friedman In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Los Alamos National Labs Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:55:56 -0700 Message-Id: <1200408956.619.59.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 (2.8.0-33.0.1.el5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: jamesh@lanl.gov X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shrinking a partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamesh@lanl.gov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:56:03 -0000 On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 07:45 -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > After installing FreeBSD and Vista (463 GB and 30 GB respectivally) I > found out I don't have enough free space on my 500 GB drive on the > vista partition. How do I determine how much I can shrink the > FreeBSD partition by safely (by just moving the end sector in > fdisk(1))? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I'd imagine that you could use the output of df -h to see how much you're using on the /usr partition and then shrink appropriately. Best James