From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 12:46:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CAC106566C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6AA8FC12 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (pD9FBEA88.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.234.136]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p5LCkKoB088875; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:46:21 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p5LCkBlx088929; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:46:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5LCk12l009885; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:46:11 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201106211246.p5LCk12l009885@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Allen From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:44:34 EDT." <8CDFDDCABD551A8-1A88-7D41A@webmail-m169.sysops.aol.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:46:01 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Point me to resource or user info X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org, Allen , "Julian H. Stacey" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:46:27 -0000 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 bcc: ctm-users@freebsd.org cc: questions@freebsd.org reply-to: questions@freebsd.org, Allen , "Julian H. Stacey" 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.