funkiness when resizing a BSD slice

Andrey V. Elsukov ae at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 17 16:30:00 UTC 2013


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).

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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