On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:22:58PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

> 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

Ugh, that should be "limited disklabel updates"

> filesystem is not. Even growing an unmounted fileystem (using
> growsfs(8)) isn't as reliable as I would wish. 
> 
>       -Otto

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