Bug 98941

Summary: Partitioning resize - only commercial product available for NTFS
Product: Documentation Reporter: Yavor Christov <yavor>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Yavor Christov 2006-06-14 12:40:16 UTC 
In FreeBSD Handbook it is written (under chapter 2.2.3.1 Disk Layouts for the i386):

You can use a commercial tool such as PartitionMagic® to resize your partitions to make space for FreeBSD. The tools directory on the CDROM contains two free software tools which can carry out this task, namely FIPS and PResizer. Documentation for both of these is available in the same directory. FIPS, PResizer, and PartitionMagic can resize FAT16 and FAT32 partitions -- used in MS-DOS® through Windows ME. PartitionMagic is the only one of the above applications that can resize NTFS partitions.


However, I personally have used GParted not once to resize NTFS partitions and not only that it does that but it is also a free solution to the above mentioned problem. It can be downloaded from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ and beside NTFS partitions it handles perfectly bunch of other stuff.
Comment 1 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-11-06 15:08:34 UTC 
trhodes     2006-11-06 15:08:18 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml 
  Log:
  Mention one commerical and one free application which may be used to resize
  NTFS partitions.
  
  PR:     98941 and 71980
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.335     +2 -2      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
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Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-11-06 15:11:15 UTC 
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From-To: open->closed

I know that more tools exist to do the re-size; however, 
listing every one is too much of a task.  I have made a 
change so that one free and one commercial solution is listed, 
no more than these two should be added.  Thanks!
Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-11-06 15:11:15 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me.