From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 19:57:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6C016A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:57:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hal@cc.usu.edu) Received: from barraout.usu.edu (barraout.usu.edu [129.123.1.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD20243D45 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:57:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hal@cc.usu.edu) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1126814254-8002-105-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://129.123.1.26:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from [129.123.104.140] (buffy.ncs.usu.edu [129.123.104.140]) by barraout.usu.edu (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 93980D00339F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:57:34 -0600 (MDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <6A23C530-2275-4D84-89AE-88FC6DB586EB@cc.usu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: hal X-ASG-Orig-Subj: resize/combine disk partitions Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:57:33 -0600 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-Virus-Scanned: by BARRAcuda Spam Firewall at usu.edu X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: -2.60 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=-2.60 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=1000.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.3986 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.60 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0001] Cc: Subject: resize/combine disk partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:57:36 -0000 I have three adjacent disk partitions as reported by bsdlabel. ad0s1g /local ad0s1b swap ad0s1h /home /local is at around 107% full all the time and needs to grow. /home is nearly empty ( new machine). What I want to do is combine ad0s1g and h into a new /local and add another disk for /home. I have tried sysinstall disklabel to delete the three partitions g, b, and h then recreate swap and /local. But noooooo the program says it can't write to the disk. BTW /local and /home were umounted and I was in single user mode. I suppose I could get creative with mount points but I would rather resize/combine the three partitions into two. How can I do that (short of a reinstall)? hal