gpt in-place editing

Stanislav Sedov stas at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 21 10:25:49 UTC 2008


On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:57:14 +0400 (MSD)
Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> mentioned:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> is there a way to split existing GPT partition into two, like one can do in 
> bsdlabel case?
> 
> I found myself wanting to shrink swap to have an alternate root, but have no 
> luck in my experiments.
> 
> For the reference, I have
> 
> da0p1	boot
> da0p2	bootdisk
> da0p3	swap
> da0p4	ZFS
> 
> and want to place two partitions in place of da0p3...
> 

You can simpy remove the da0p3 partition and add two new instead of it.

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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