Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 08:29:59 -0500 From: stan <stanb@awod.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Resizing partions Message-ID: <20030201132959.GA3102@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20030201114550.GD84798@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20030201014032.GA23426@teddy.fas.com> <20030201114550.GD84798@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:45:50AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:40:32PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I've got a laptop that I originaly partioned inot a windoze, and FreeBSD > > partiton. I'm going to upgrade this unit this weekend, and I wnat to > > concatenate the 2 partions. Is there a way to do this? (Yes, it's the m$ > > parition I'm nuking). > > > > The easiest way to do what you want is to back-up all the files and > stuff you want to keep from your existing FreeBSD and Windows > installations, and then just re-install FreeBSD over the whole disk. > That will give you one fdisk(8) slice (ad0s1) containing the FreeBSD > disklabel(8) partitions (ad0s1a, ad0s1b etc.) Yhanks, I geuss I should do this, (the backup & reinstall), but i'm trying to get it doen over the weekend. I was hoping to find a free tool like partition magic, I guess that there is no such tool? I looked a GNU parted, and it did not look like it was ready to do this for FreeBSD (yet ?). -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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