From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 23 18:14:40 2007 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 758BC16A41B for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-09.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-09.bluehost.com [69.89.17.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E7C913C4B7 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 7986 invoked by uid 0); 23 Oct 2007 18:14:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2007 18:14:31 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IkOGt-0002EH-Bz for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:14:31 -0600 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9NIF4Mb054582 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:15:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l9NIF34Y054581 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:15:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:15:03 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20071023181503.GC54356@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box183.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [737 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com Subject: resizing partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:14:40 -0000 I have need to alter some partition sizes on a (laptop) system I use daily, with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed. Are there tools you'd recommend for this, that should be stable and not prone to hosing up my filesystems? In particular, I probably don't need to shrink any partitions -- only grow them -- but I'm not sure how I want to handle this at this time. I worry a bit about using some Linux LiveCD's partition management tools on a FreeBSD system. Any advice would be appreciated. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: "People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that pointing has not made words obsolete, there will always be command lines."