Re: Resizing Partitions

[Luke Bakken <luke_bakken@yahoo.com>]

You have to back things up and re-partition destructively.  No partition
magic for openbsd.


On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Reuben Sailor wrote:

> Actually, I am very interested in knowing how to non destructively resize
> my partitions without reinstalling OBSD too.  I have searched and come up
> empty too.  Is there a BSD utility that will allow me to accomplish this?
>
> When I first did the install, I made a newbie mistake and set my swap
> partition about 3.5 times too big (200MB) on my OBSD 2.8 firewall/NAT box
> (486-100mhz 32 MB RAM).
>
> I would like to set my swap to 64MB (can I make it smaller....I am just
> using it as a firewall/nat and possibly an ntp server--if i can get the ntp
> to work properly) and reclaim that extra space.
>
> Also, how much space do I need to accommodate the full source code on my
> harddrive?  I have a small harddrive (about 500 MB)
>
> Thanks!
> -RS-
>
>
> At , Kevin Greenidge wrote:
>
> >Hi, currently my /pub partition is bigger than my /home partition and
> >in the past I would just reinstall Openbsd to resize it.  I looked in
> >the archives and saw a few references to it but nothing solid. How
> >would I go about starting the process or where can I look for further
> >readings on it?
> >
> >Kevin Greenidge
>