On 30 Mar 2007 02:50:31 -0000 John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I set up my laptop to dual boot between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and FreeBSD. When > I > first set it up I made the partitions the same size, but since then I > found I do a lot more with FreeBSD so I'd rather give it more space. > > So the last time I had to reinstall Windows from scratch, I made its > partition smaller. Now there's a big chunk of free space between > the two partitions. Should I expect the following to work? > > (back everything up, duh) > > Boot from a CD, change the partition table to make the FreeBSD partition > start right after the Windows partition > > Use dd to move down the existing FreeBSD partition data so it starts > at the beginning of the new partition > > Use growfs to give the extra space to my /usr filesystem, which is at > the end of the existing partition
That all sounds a bit scary, and I don't know if it might work. > Or should I just back it all up to a USB disk, reformat, and restore it, > which will take considerably longer? You could, or you could do as Garrett suggested, but what I'd likely do (have done) in the same situation is to make a new FreeBSD slice with fdisk, occupying the area you've freed above the 'doze slice, and mount it on, say, /data. Or you could mount it on say /usr/data, whatever. One caveat: if you use sysinstall to setup the fdisk/newfs/labeling of a new slice that's _before_ your boot slice, be sure to write your changes and bail out of sysinstall before it thinks you want to install there :) Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
