Point me to resource or user info

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi, Allen wrote:
>  Been on Linux maybe 10-12 distributions for 10 years, am 80 and always been curious about BSD so finally getting around to it.
> Presently sadly my new Toshiba L675D seems to have some Linux incompatibilities so I have win 7 with Ubuntu 10.04.2 wubi.
> I do have a huge data partition that could be resized and wondering if some kind soul would offer options based on my present
> configuration. I do have wireless network. Thank you

You mailed the wrong list,
	This list ctm-users at freebsd.org is for very specialised usages,
	for list of lists, see 
		http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo
  So in this reply I set:
	To:             Allen <chef11994 at aol.com>
	bcc:            ctm-users at freebsd.org
	cc: questions at freebsd.org
	reply-to: questions at freebsd.org, Allen <chef11994 at aol.com>,
		 "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com>

Welcome to BSD, There's quite a few BSDs
	http://www.berklix.com/bsd/
prob. something like FreeBSD or PC-BSD will suit you best.


Yes, you can shrink your Win 7 partition.
I answered a similar question recently
	http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html

Summary of methods/ other answers: 
	Using programs runs on MS, some commercial, some free
	Running a free live Linux CD such as knoppix & shrink from there.
	Boot an existing(*) FreeBSD & run ntfsresize(*)
		http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html#ntfsresize
		http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/sysutils/ntfsprogs/files/README.JHS

(*) We havent yet (as of 8.2-RELEASE) put ntfsresize on FreeBSD
    livefs boot media (I mean to submit a send-pr for that some
    time, unless someone else beets me to it (welcome) :-)

For now remove disc, connect it to another machine running BSD, 
build & install /usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs & run ntfresize

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
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