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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:50:04 +0100
From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com>
To: "Morten A. Middelthon" <morten@freenix.no>
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Subject: Re: Adjusting partition size with disklabel
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On 6/30/06, Morten A. Middelthon <morten@freenix.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> long story short, I have a partition on a RAID5 array which after an accident
> where I had to rebuild the array became smaller than it originally was. Here's
> the original size:
>
> amrd1: 1430505MB (2929674240 sectors) RAID 5 (degraded)
>
> and the new size after the rebuild:
>
> amrd1: 1430400MB (2929459200 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
>
> Is it possible to use 'bsdlabel -e' to shrink the partition down to a size
> which will fit the new size of the array?
>

To my knowledge, you can only growfs(8) them, not shrink them.

References:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html


-- 
Joao Barros