In article <19990601131050.a27...@falcon.sourcee.com>, Evan Tsoukalas
<e...@falcon.sourcee.com> wrote:
> My question is, can I shrink my /usr partition down without losing
> what is on it? It is a 3.8 gig partition that only has 900 meg or
> so on it. I would like to trim about a gigabyte off of it so that
> I can install Windoze. Is this going to be possible, or should I
> start from scratch installing Winoze first?
The only way to shrink it is like this:
* back up the filesystem to someplace using dump
* shrink the partition
* run newfs to create a filesystem on the resized partition
* restore the data from your backup
John
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