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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:14:17 +0100
From: Richard Lupton <r.lupton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Shrinking slices to make room for linux
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Hello,

I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (my first use of FreeBSD)
onto a Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop, dual booting with Windows. However,
now I would like to install a Linux distro to see if the ACPI support
is any different and so on. I have plenty of space on the FreeBSD
slice, so is there anyway of shrinking the slice without loosing the
data on it (maybe something like GNU parted)? The only references I
have found to this sort of thing are to do with  making FreeBSD slices
bigger...

Thanks,
    Richard