Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:46:01 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Allen <chef11994@aol.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Point me to resource or user info Message-ID: <201106211246.p5LCk12l009885@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:44:34 EDT." <8CDFDDCABD551A8-1A88-7D41A@webmail-m169.sysops.aol.com>
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Hi, Allen wrote: > Been on Linux maybe 10-12 distributions for 10 years, am 80 and always been curious about BSD so finally getting around to it. > Presently sadly my new Toshiba L675D seems to have some Linux incompatibilities so I have win 7 with Ubuntu 10.04.2 wubi. > I do have a huge data partition that could be resized and wondering if some kind soul would offer options based on my present > configuration. I do have wireless network. Thank you You mailed the wrong list, This list ctm-users@freebsd.org is for very specialised usages, for list of lists, see http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo So in this reply I set: To: Allen <chef11994@aol.com> bcc: ctm-users@freebsd.org cc: questions@freebsd.org reply-to: questions@freebsd.org, Allen <chef11994@aol.com>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Welcome to BSD, There's quite a few BSDs http://www.berklix.com/bsd/ prob. something like FreeBSD or PC-BSD will suit you best. Yes, you can shrink your Win 7 partition. I answered a similar question recently http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html Summary of methods/ other answers: Using programs runs on MS, some commercial, some free Running a free live Linux CD such as knoppix & shrink from there. Boot an existing(*) FreeBSD & run ntfsresize(*) http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html#ntfsresize http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/sysutils/ntfsprogs/files/README.JHS (*) We havent yet (as of 8.2-RELEASE) put ntfsresize on FreeBSD livefs boot media (I mean to submit a send-pr for that some time, unless someone else beets me to it (welcome) :-) For now remove disc, connect it to another machine running BSD, build & install /usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs & run ntfresize Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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