From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 13:46:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02240 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02225 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11237; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:45:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:45:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Nicolas Blais cc: ranish@intercom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition problem In-Reply-To: <35A8D850.5D23C1EB@netrover.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Removing -newbies, inappropriate list. On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Nicolas Blais wrote: > I have used to have just one partition with Win95, and I wanted freeBSD > so I shorted my windows partition of 300 megs and everything is write in > FDISK, it reports that the FAT-32 now has 800 megs. > The problem is that windows still thinks it has 1100 megs and I can't > install FreeBSD. I know a format would do but I don't want to loose > everything, is there a way to tell windows it has only 800 megs and not > 1100 megs? You probably shrank a logical disk in your extended partition, but didn't shrink the extended partition itself. Generally you'll need a special tool for this, either Partition Resizer (which is in the tools/ directory on ftp.freebsd.org or the CD) or Partition Magic (commerical but quite good). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message