Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:44:42 +0100 (IST) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@iol.ie> To: "Eric I. Arnoth" <earnoth@UDel.Edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1) hibernation & 2) Re: IBM TP 760: X messed up on resume Message-ID: <XFMail.990420174442.steveo@iol.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904201206260.318-100000@lapdog.duch.udel.edu>
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On 20-Apr-99 Eric I. Arnoth wrote:
> current hibernation partition. Can I use FIPS to resize the FreeBSD
FIPS will trash your FreeBSD partition (or do nothing I'm not
sure which) it certainly won't shrink it cleanly.
> partition appropriately, or will that destroy my install? How does
> FreeBSD react to being resized in such a manner? Is there some other
> way
> to do this?
I have succesfully shrunk a FreeBSD partitition by:
1: Booting single user with all but / unmounted
2: Using dd to move (track by track) /usr and /var partitions
down enough tracks to shrink my swap partition. I still have the shell
script for this if you want to try this.
3: disklabel -e and very carefully put the new right
information in.
4: Reboot and pray (one typo and you are hosed well and truly)
This depends on the fact that the swap partition contains
nothing of value.
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Date: 20-Apr-99
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