absolute vs. relative offsets in disklabel

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> There are many weighty arguments for relative offsets:
> - No confusion (once I did try to dd slice from one place on disk to
>   another to copy it, and was very surprised when changes made on one
>   partition appeared on another as well)
> - Ability to copy and move slices with simple dd(1).

Yes please! I am faced with the problem, that I want to offset my
FreeBSD slice about -2GB, so I can use growfs to enlarge it.

btw, how hard would it be to write a shrinkfs and perhaps movefs tool?

Ulrich Spoerlein
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