Shrinking a partition

James Harrison jamesh at lanl.gov
Tue Jan 15 06:56:03 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 07:45 -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> After installing FreeBSD and Vista (463 GB and 30 GB respectivally) I
> found out I don't have enough free space on my 500 GB drive on the
> vista partition.   How do I determine how much I can shrink the
> FreeBSD partition by safely (by just moving the end sector in
> fdisk(1))?
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I'd imagine that you could use the output of df -h to see how much
you're using on the /usr partition and then shrink appropriately.

Best

James



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