On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Kadari Mayson wrote:

> I have a dedicated BSD drive with free space, is it ok to
> re-partition the drive?  Or is this what we call "destructive"
> re-partitioning?  Will it completely screw up my existing
> partitions?  Why isn't there a non-destructive partition utility
> for the mac like Partition Magic for the PC.  PM is verry sweet
> and easy to use.  Is it because it's not possible on the Mac or
> that no one cares enuff to write one?  Seems to me that FBW,
> long-time Mac supporter and harddrive utility authors would come
> up with a scheme.  Oh well.

All the Mac partitioning tools allow "non-destructive"
re-partitioning, pilot errors excepted. If you don't want to move or
change anything else, you could simply use Mkfs to change the free
space to a "NetBSD Usr" partition. It's not possible to resize an ffs
partition, but if you have the space you can mirrors partitions with
"dump" and "restore" and  rearrange things.


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