On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:09:47PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Heya folks - here's my issue; I removed a OS from my drive and that freed > up 10 gig. I wish to "merge" the free 10 gig into my FreeBSD file system. > > Here's what she looks like via fdisk: > > Disk name: ad1 FDISK Partition > Editor > DISK Geometry: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors (76316MB) > > Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype > > 0 10236 20964824 - 12 unused 0 > 20964825 66079 156296384 ad1s1 8 freebsd 165 > 156296385 2 156301487 - 12 unused 0 > > > So - what do I need to do to take the 1st line and merge it into the > existing system?
The big problem with merging it in is that everything is designed to grow at the end, not at the beginning. growfs can be used to extend a filesystem afterwards, but not before. One idea that might work is to use some kind of volume management system like vinum. If your current system already used that, this would be a simple matter. What you could do though it to setup vinum on the unused partition and start moving data over. Eventually you could extend vinum with the second partition once all the data is moved over. If you aren't using more than about 9 gigs total on freebsd right now, then you just have to move data over once. > > Sorry for the formatting > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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