From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 06:32:45 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 0B4A31065699 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:32:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4D88FC1A for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:32:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id m8S6DJv2022769 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:13:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id m8S6DJ3c022768; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA03284; Sat, 27 Sep 08 23:01:17 PDT Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:02:33 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com Message-Id: <48df1df9.VJWOzhYoAET2LZg4%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <48DEC02C.90302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48DEC02C.90302@gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 06:32:45 -0000 > 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? Partition Commander is aware of *BSD partitions and should be able to do this. (Granted it is payware.) Delete the NTFS partition, move the FreeBSD partition (slice in FreeBSD parlance) to the beginning of the drive, boot into FreeBSD to make sure everything is working, then go ahead with the grow operation as usual. As always, it's highly recommended to make a full backup first. Having done that, it may be easier to reslice the disk as FreeBSD only and then restore the backup.