Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:34:56 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, marcel@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpt in-place editing Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0809230132120.5027@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <10719B6B-1F3B-44C6-BAC0-D8C3F42F7F3F@mac.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0809170054290.19038@woozle.rinet.ru> <20080921140932.adf51b5e.stas@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0809222202460.94747@woozle.rinet.ru> <10719B6B-1F3B-44C6-BAC0-D8C3F42F7F3F@mac.com>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: MM> > SS> > is there a way to split existing GPT partition into two, like one MM> > can do in MM> > SS> > bsdlabel case? MM> > SS> > MM> > SS> > I found myself wanting to shrink swap to have an alternate root, but MM> > have no MM> > SS> > luck in my experiments. MM> > SS> > MM> > SS> > For the reference, I have MM> > SS> > MM> > SS> > da0p1 boot MM> > SS> > da0p2 bootdisk MM> > SS> > da0p3 swap MM> > SS> > da0p4 ZFS MM> > SS> > MM> > SS> > and want to place two partitions in place of da0p3... MM> > SS> MM> > SS> You can simpy remove the da0p3 partition and add two new instead of MM> > it. MM> > MM> > It does not seem gpart wants allow me to delete da0p3 while disk is MM> > active... MM> MM> You probably have swapon and/or dumpon to set to the partition. MM> You can't remove a partition that is in use. MM> MM> Run "swapoff /dev/da0p3" and/or "dumpon off" first. Of course I did run swapoff; I'm not sure I did dumpoff, and unfortunately I did not run it under script(1). gpt (I did test under RELENG_7) does the trick, but -- However, we clearly have at least one bug: not creating da* device (for da0p5 in my case) Thanks. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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