From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 00:18:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C451065678 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:18:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EF08FC17 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:18:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.27]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KqsJ1a0040bG4ec590JwsF; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:18:56 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.253.227]) by OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id L0Jv1a00L4v8bD73P0JwNJ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:18:56 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=VU7h7I23u-4A:10 a=H90rnMGQA64A:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=6GvsDE7yZKeGGn6EBl0A:9 a=8V8KJ9ZNblVSFkKmTloA:7 a=oHo8xrSNVo79QhuSnJZe1s477CIA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 526CBC9432; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:18:55 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Message-ID: <20080928001855.GA66050@icarus.home.lan> References: <48DEC02C.90302@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48DEC02C.90302@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing partition size by removing partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:18:57 -0000 On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 07:22:20PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I have a disk that is laid out with partion 0 being NTFS and 1 being > FreeBSD. I want to remove the NTFS partition and grow the FreeBSD one > but all the docs I have seen only talk about how to do this if the new > part of the partition is at the end of the partition you wish to grow. > How do I go about this? There isn't a way to do this, as far as I know. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |