Re: Resizing Partitions

[Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>]

On Friday,  2 March 2001 at  4:48:35 -0800, Reuben Sailor wrote:
> 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?
>
> 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?

FreeBSD-CURRENT has a program growfs(8).  As the name suggests, it
currently can't shrink partitions.  I suspect it wouldn't be too much
trouble to port it to OpenBSD, but if you do, you should contact the
authors, since they're still working on it.

Greg
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