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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
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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.