Re: Problem: How to resize FreeBSD "partitions" on a live system?

In article <4fgk76F1ijl8rU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jpd <read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


[1] To people who now point out that NTFS is ``OK'', or whatever, I can
only say: Maybe in theory, I've never seen it work well in practice,
certainly not without third party tools. Especially recovering from
booting-preventing errors leaves much to be desired.

OK to me means useable - but that's far from being really good :-)

And one of MS's problems that I've noticed in the 'boot-preventing
errors' is that it depends upon far too many things during boot.

At least Unix let's you into a single-user mode to be able to fix
things.

Something was corrupted in my home directory, totally unreadable,
and 1) I could not boot and 2) when I tried the recover from CD
it wanted to reinstall the ENTIRE OS AGAIN - just because one piece
was corrupt. That just poor design. Or maybe design is too
generous a word to use when refering to their file-handler. :-)

My fix for that was to use the Knoppix Linux live CD.

Using it's tar facility I made tar files of the smaller pieces\
and put them in the 500MB ramdisk, and then ftp'd those to my
FreeBSD machine. On the large pieces I did straight transfers.

If the external video processing device I use didn't require
XP/2000/2003, I'd hardly use it all.

And since the above problem my C; drive is pretty sparse, and
everthing elses goes on a physical drive D:

It's truly amazing that MS has made so little progress in building
a robust system since it's introduction as PC-DOS [limited to just
a few over 500 files per disk] back in 1981.

And Unix systems from that era were more fragile, but not they are
about as robust as anything I've ever used.

Bill



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