Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:00:14 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, Karl Vogel <vogelke@pobox.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anything specific to keep in mind restoring from rsync? Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB12005279BCF4794B706B5DB3F6810@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <20170820001747.U98697@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.87.1503144016.6154.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20170820001747.U98697@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On 08/19/17 20:08, Ian Smith wrote: > However, despite not having used it myself - and still assuming UFS - > this seems a model job for growfs(8). The backup first is of course > sensible, but by just resizing the partition with gpart and then using > growfs, all that extra work should be obviated, if I'm reading it right. Hi Ian/others, That precisely was what I needed to do. Using MBR + UFS, I have : ada0s1 - Linux 30 GB -> 20 GB ada0s2 - FreeBSD 30 GB -> 40 GB In effect the FreeBSD slice starts 10 GB to the left. But I was unsure whether growfs has the capability to expand the root filesystem in that manner (starting further to its left). So I just rsynced my data to a backup. Since the whole thing took just an hour or 2, I would not say there was any inconvenience I faced anywhere : - ) Thanks Manish Jain
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