Re: Moving paritions around
- From: Ian Smith <smithi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:43:50 +1000 (EST)
On 30 Mar 2007 02:50:31 -0000 John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I set up my laptop to dual boot between W1nd@ws 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
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