Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:25:41 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>, geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: funkiness when resizing a BSD slice Message-ID: <52600F85.70009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201306260731.r5Q7VMBY002283@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <201306260731.r5Q7VMBY002283@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On 26.06.2013 11:31, Don Lewis wrote: > I've got a machine that used to dual boot FreeBSD and a Fedora. It had > one disk slice for FreeBSD, another slice for Fedora, and a third slice > that was marked as Linux swap that both FreeBSD and Linux used as swap. > The FreeBSD slice had only an "a" ufs partition that covered the entire > slice (in addition to the "c" partition). > > FreeBSD outgrew its available space. Since I wasn't using the Fedora > slice anymore, I wanted to delete the Fedora slice, grow the FreeBSD > slice, grow the "a" partition, and the run growfs to expand the ufs > filesystem. Things started off smoothly, but I ran into problems after > I grew the FreeBSD slice. I eventually stumbled around until I expanded > the "a" partition, but then bsdlabel whined about the size of the "c" > partition until I manually edited its size, contrary to the > instructions. Hi, FYI, I just commited the fix for this issue (r256690). -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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