Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:29:19 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resizing partitions in the same slice Message-ID: <405255DF.9080309@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200403122326.i2CNQT820905@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200403122326.i2CNQT820905@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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>> BTW, some places have recommended commercial solution like Norton Ghost >> or Partition Magic. Do these products work on FreeBSD's UFS format and >> grok partitions-in-a-slice? > > Partition Magic only manipulates slices and does not know anything > about partitions within slices - especially FreeBSD partitions. > I would guess that Norton is the same because it is made for Microsloth > environments. UFS wouldn't have anything to do with it - that comes > later with newfs. > Ghost and, IIRC, Drive Image (the Ghost equivalent from the makers of Partition Magic) will handle unidentified (i.e. UFS) partitions, but only as a sector by sector copy, so you can't take advantage of those products ability to scale up/down the partition (MS definition) sizes when migrating to a bigger/smaller disk.
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