Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:53:07 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs(8) - no fear! Message-ID: <43890373.7070607@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20051124140535.I75939@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20051124140535.I75939@chylonia.3miasto.net>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i asked the question recently, no answers, but finally did it this way > and all worked fine. i shifted my partition left with dd and resized > with growfs. Thanksgiving break may have taken at least some of the reading list population out of regular contact, at least briefly. (Happy turkey day + 2, list. :-) I'd rather backup and reformat, or just use symlinks, then fool with growfs myself. I've tried it as an experiment, and it seemed to work, but I don't have enough data to really say more than that. > but can bsdlabel be forced to write label with overlapping slices? for > temporary operations it will be useful if i know what i'm doing. I think using "sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16" may help, or some close variant (check the list archives), there is an anti-footshooting mechanism in place which will prevent you from changing the partition table if you have mounted partitions. Note that you can re-run sysinstall and use the label edittor in there if you like. -- -Chuck
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