From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 27 00:53:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A8F16A41F for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:53:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9793B43D5D for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:53:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61925E54; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:53:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 98725-06; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:53:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AF15CF8; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:53:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43890373.7070607@mac.com> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:53:07 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <20051124140535.I75939@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <20051124140535.I75939@chylonia.3miasto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs(8) - no fear! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:53:11 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i asked the question recently, no answers, but finally did it this way > and all worked fine. i shifted my partition left with dd and resized > with growfs. Thanksgiving break may have taken at least some of the reading list population out of regular contact, at least briefly. (Happy turkey day + 2, list. :-) I'd rather backup and reformat, or just use symlinks, then fool with growfs myself. I've tried it as an experiment, and it seemed to work, but I don't have enough data to really say more than that. > but can bsdlabel be forced to write label with overlapping slices? for > temporary operations it will be useful if i know what i'm doing. I think using "sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16" may help, or some close variant (check the list archives), there is an anti-footshooting mechanism in place which will prevent you from changing the partition table if you have mounted partitions. Note that you can re-run sysinstall and use the label edittor in there if you like. -- -Chuck