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Subject: growfs(8) - no fear!
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i asked the question recently, no answers, but finally did it this way and 
all worked fine. i shifted my partition left with dd and resized with 
growfs.

but can bsdlabel be forced to write label with overlapping slices? for 
temporary operations it will be useful if i know what i'm doing.