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Subject: increasing the size of / using growfs
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Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to increase the size of
the / partition using growfs?  i was thinking of trying
this by booting to a FreeBSD live disk and giving it a
shot.  Is this the proper way to perform this type of
growth?

Scott