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From: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote:

> I haven't tried this with geom_vinum, but using the old vinum I could 
> grow the BSD partition that contained my vinum "drive", then restart 
> vinum which would recognize more free space on it's "drive" and then add 
> another subdisk on that same drive. I've done this around a year ago, so 
> this might not work exactly as described but it is possible.

That should work with geom_vinum as well, although I haven't tried yet.

> Even more likely to work is just adding another BSD partition on your bigger
> drive, add that as a new vinum drive and then add subdisks/plexes on top.

That's the way to go, but just make sure you have only one vinum drive per 
disk.

cheers,
le

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