From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 23:52:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9521065691 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769EC8FC0C for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0K7V00E0KNLBC9M0@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:22:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m8RNMKXL022202; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:22:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:22:20 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <48DEC02C.90302@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080918) Subject: Increasing partition size by removing partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:52:38 -0000 I have a disk that is laid out with partion 0 being NTFS and 1 being FreeBSD. I want to remove the NTFS partition and grow the FreeBSD one but all the docs I have seen only talk about how to do this if the new part of the partition is at the end of the partition you wish to grow. How do I go about this?