Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:27:30 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1016962051.6d580d@mired.org> To: Troy <tdrake@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merging partition space with disklabel Message-ID: <15511.1154.385410.640889@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3C969AB6.54375148@myrealbox.com> References: <3C969AB6.54375148@myrealbox.com>
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In <3C969AB6.54375148@myrealbox.com>, Troy <tdrake@myrealbox.com> typed: > I'm setting up fbsd on a new machine using one of the disks out of the > old box, which contains the valuable /home partition with data that I > cant loose by blowing away that slice and recreating, but on that disk I > also have the /var and swap slices, in which I'd like to get rid of the > swap and merge it into the /home slice, all without loosing home's data, > is there a way to do this, or am I stuck with this? If swap follows /home, then you can do it by tweaking the partition table then using growfs. Otherwise, you have to dump, change, then restore. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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