funkiness when resizing a BSD slice
Don Lewis
truckman at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 17 18:26:26 UTC 2013
On 17 Oct, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 26.06.2013 11:31, Don Lewis wrote:
>> I've got a machine that used to dual boot FreeBSD and a Fedora. It had
>> one disk slice for FreeBSD, another slice for Fedora, and a third slice
>> that was marked as Linux swap that both FreeBSD and Linux used as swap.
>> The FreeBSD slice had only an "a" ufs partition that covered the entire
>> slice (in addition to the "c" partition).
>>
>> FreeBSD outgrew its available space. Since I wasn't using the Fedora
>> slice anymore, I wanted to delete the Fedora slice, grow the FreeBSD
>> slice, grow the "a" partition, and the run growfs to expand the ufs
>> filesystem. Things started off smoothly, but I ran into problems after
>> I grew the FreeBSD slice. I eventually stumbled around until I expanded
>> the "a" partition, but then bsdlabel whined about the size of the "c"
>> partition until I manually edited its size, contrary to the
>> instructions.
>
> Hi,
>
> FYI, I just commited the fix for this issue (r256690).
Thanks!
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