Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:50:04 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: "Morten A. Middelthon" <morten@freenix.no> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adjusting partition size with disklabel Message-ID: <70e8236f0606300550j51b553b6y7bf5ba0b63be6025@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060630063843.GA54234@freenix.no> References: <20060630063843.GA54234@freenix.no>
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On 6/30/06, Morten A. Middelthon <morten@freenix.no> wrote: > Hi, > > long story short, I have a partition on a RAID5 array which after an accident > where I had to rebuild the array became smaller than it originally was. Here's > the original size: > > amrd1: 1430505MB (2929674240 sectors) RAID 5 (degraded) > > and the new size after the rebuild: > > amrd1: 1430400MB (2929459200 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) > > Is it possible to use 'bsdlabel -e' to shrink the partition down to a size > which will fit the new size of the array? > To my knowledge, you can only growfs(8) them, not shrink them. References: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html -- Joao Barros
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