Shrinking slices to make room for linux

[Dmitry Mityugov]

On 6/14/05, Richard Lupton <r.lupton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (my first use of FreeBSD)
> onto a Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop, dual booting with Windows. However,
> now I would like to install a Linux distro to see if the ACPI support
> is any different and so on. I have plenty of space on the FreeBSD
> slice, so is there anyway of shrinking the slice without loosing the
> data on it (maybe something like GNU parted)? The only references I
> have found to this sort of thing are to do with  making FreeBSD slices
> bigger...

In addition to what Jerry said, if you indeed just installed it, why
you can't just reinstall it, leaving more space for other operating
systems this time?

-- 
Dmitry

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