Thanks guys, I was hoping for a more optimistic feedback, at least I know not to waste too much time on this.
Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Otto Moerbeek" <o...@drijf.net> > To: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Sent: Monday, 13 October, 2014 18:26:45 > Subject: Re: Live resize / filesystem? > 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
