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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:37:44 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: "Low Kian Seong" <freebsd.low@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How do you resize an existing partition / slice ?
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:24:49 -0500
"Low Kian Seong" <freebsd.low@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Like the subject shows, I would just like to know how do i resize an
> existing partition or slice, ermm with minimum loss of data of course.

man growfs

However, this requires unused space at the _end_ of the partition,
which is usually not the case with a root partition.  If you're
using some sort of volume manager, such as hardware RAID or Vinum,
you may be able to do it anyway.

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Bill Moran
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