From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 13:46:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0E6EBAB for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2014 13:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vlymskerp.net (mail.vlymskerp.net [197.189.214.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AAE7133 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2014 13:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vlymskerp.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vlymskerp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1255F8D1 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2014 15:46:07 +0200 (SAST) Received: by mail.vlymskerp.net (Postfix, from userid 5001) id C56085F8D3; Sat, 8 Nov 2014 15:46:07 +0200 (SAST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on vps1.vlymskerp.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from penguin.localnet (8ta-228-22-24.telkomadsl.co.za [197.228.22.24]) by mail.vlymskerp.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BCE2C5F8D1 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2014 15:46:06 +0200 (SAST) From: Coert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED: Re: shrinking of FreeBSD root partition on GPT Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 15:46:01 +0200 Message-ID: <3676621.F2aqJK7Mul@penguin> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.2 (Linux/3.13.0-24-generic; KDE/4.13.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1478337.iqUxg28tON@penguin> References: <1478337.iqUxg28tON@penguin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:46:11 -0000 On Saturday 08 November 2014 12:58:12 Coert wrote: > Hello all! > > Just installed FreeBSD on my home server, (used to be linux) > > When I did the installation, I used the installer defaults, and it gave me > the following: > gpart show ada0 > => 34 488397101 ada0 GPT (233G) > 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) > 162 480247680 2 freebsd-ufs (229G) > 480247842 8149292 3 freebsd-swap (3.9G) > 488397134 1 - free - (512B) > > I would like to shrink my root partition, (GPT partition 2). > After reading through the handbook, I can adapt to shrinking instead of > growing, > > What I am going to try is: > 1. Boot from LiveCD > 2. do a dump -0 of the current root partition > 3. delete the root GPT partition, and create a new smaller GPT partition. > 4.do a newfs on the new slice, and restore the dump. > > Do I need to restore any bootcode after this? I read about bsdlabel, but > that seems to be only for MBR scheme? > > Will this work? or did i miss a step? > > When that is done, I will create a freebsd-zfs partition in the freed space > on the disk. (Will rather still keep freebsd root on UFS) > > Kind regards, > Coert > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, Went as expected! I kept the order of the GPT partitions the same, so no edit of /etc/fstab necessary. And I created the file system with the same settings as the old one. My root partition is now 32GB Also made the swap partition bigger, and have ZFS taking up the rest! Kind regards, Coert