From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 04:42:39 2005 Return-Path: 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 22DBA16A4CF; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:42:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4244243D39; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:42:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j2D4gTNU030709; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:42:29 GMT Message-ID: <4233C5FB.8070805@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:47:55 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <4233AEFB.4010801@makeworld.com> <20050313043040.GA876@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4233C32A.8030604@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <4233C32A.8030604@makeworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-4.9, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: How to merge an unused partition. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:42:39 -0000 Chris wrote: > 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 I think growfs(8) will do what your after. However if it all goes wrong and your data implodes.... ;) Chris