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Old 01-26-2006
Resize FREEBSD 5.4 partition

Experts,

I am trying to repartition my FreeBSD partition to accomodate 1GB of DOS partition so that I can have the samba share support. I wanted to know the procedure to resize an exsiting FreeBSD partition.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Jim
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Old 01-28-2006
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Originally Posted by jimmynath
Experts,

I am trying to repartition my FreeBSD partition to accomodate 1GB of DOS partition so that I can have the samba share support. I wanted to know the procedure to resize an exsiting FreeBSD partition.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Jim
man growfs
i dont understand which partition type what you want to resize
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