Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:35:54 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to merge an unused partition. Message-ID: <4233C32A.8030604@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20050313043040.GA876@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4233AEFB.4010801@makeworld.com> <20050313043040.GA876@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Saturday, 12 March 2005 at 21:09:47 -0600, Chris wrote: > > >>Heya folks - here's my issue; I removed a OS from my drive and that freed >>up 10 gig. I wish to "merge" the free 10 gig into my FreeBSD file system. >> >>Here's what she looks like via fdisk: >> >>Disk name: ad1 FDISK Partition >>Editor >>DISK Geometry: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors (76316MB) >> >>Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype >> >> 0 10236 20964824 - 12 unused 0 >> 20964825 66079 156296384 ad1s1 8 freebsd 165 >>156296385 2 156301487 - 12 unused 0 >> >> >>So - what do I need to do to take the 1st line and merge it into the >>existing system? >> >> > >That depends on what you want to do with the space. It would be >relatively complicated (but not impossible) to merge it into an >existing file system. If you just want to create a another file >system, just create a new partition in the partition editor, set it to >tye 165, then in the label editor create one (or just possibly more >than one) file system. Both here and in the label editor, use the W >command to actually write the stuff to disk. > > > >>Sorry for the formatting >> >> > >Looks fine to me. > >Greg > > I assume doing this while in single user mode. Otherwise I am getting an error: unable to write to disk. But as you mentioned,. I would prefer to somehow merge it into the current FBSD file system. Chris
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