On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 08:56:02PM GMT, Gwen Nelson wrote: > Hey all > > Just wondering if this is possible without having to do a full dump/restore. > > I'd like to setup a dual boot on one of my machines, currently the whole > disk is devoted to OpenBSD, the disk label is setup with everything at / > for simplicity reasons as until now I had no need for dual-boot. > > Is this possible? On a Linux box I'd obviously use gparted or similar, with > integrated support for resizing extfs. >
When you set up your partitions, they need to be in an order that you can plan ahead for growing partitions. For example, let's say that you might need to grow /usr/local later. Then you should put a partition immediately after it that you can lose (or move) later. growfs needs to use a partition immediately after it or you cannot do it. /usr/local/ /evil_data/ /home/ Losing /evil_data is no problem, but losing /home would be a serious problem if you had decided to set /home right after /usr/local. -- Regards, Chris Bennett
