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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!not-for-mail From: bill@qstools.com (Bill Cox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making another partition Date: 10 May 1996 14:07:33 GMT Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4mvij5$q5i@news.scruz.net> References: <mozart-0805961121090001@madama.butterfly.net> <4mqud4$cva@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.159.64 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Jeff Dickson (jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote: : I have half of the hard disk devoted to FreeBSD. The other half used to have : Linux on it - maybe still does. Just the same I'd like to reuse the space. I : thought of using the installation utility for this, but stopped short when : I read that changes to the partition table could wipe out all the data. I know : reinstalling FreeBSD from scratch is one way, but maybe that`s the hard way. I'd look into Partition Magic, a commercial DOS/win3.1 product. Friends rave about it. You can resize partitions without destroying the data inside. -- Bill Cox Software Janitor Raise taxes to cover the deficit? Are you *crazy*?? They'll spend 1.3 times the amount we allocate them, no matter how much it is.