[afnog] Resize FreeBSD partition

Hervey Allen hervey at nsrc.org
Thu Sep 1 22:59:45 EAT 2005


Brian Candler wrote:

> Resizing partitions which contain data that you want to keep is tricky. Your
> best bet might be a commercial package like PartitionMagic - although it
> might not be able to resize a FreeBSD partition.
> 

I looked in to this once and found that PartitionMagic can't 
deal with UFS file systems. The current version 8.0 claims 
that it, "Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, and Ext3 file 
systems."

Full details are here:

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/features.html

Cheers,
	- Hervey
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