On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 04:13:50PM +0100, Nux! wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anyone knows is it's possible to live resize a partition and it's filesystem?
> I'm working on some OpenBSD cloud templates and I need them to be - among
> others - "self-resizable". I.e. the main template will be 8 or 10 GB whereas
> the destination disk may be larger than that; the OS should expand it's
> partition to match the entire disk.
Live fdisk abd disklabel updates are possible, but growing an existing
filesystem is not. Even growing an unmounted fileystem (using
growsfs(8)) isn't as reliable as I would wish.
-Otto
