How to merge an unused partition.

[Chris]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>On Saturday, 12 March 2005 at 21:09:47 -0600, Chris wrote:
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>>Heya folks - here's my issue; I removed a OS from my drive and that freed
>>up 10 gig. I wish to "merge" the free 10 gig into my FreeBSD file system.
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>>Here's what she looks like via fdisk:
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>>Disk name:      ad1                                    FDISK Partition
>>Editor
>>DISK Geometry:  9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors (76316MB)
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>>Offset       Size(MB)        End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype
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>>        0      10236   20964824        -     12     unused        0
>> 20964825      66079  156296384    ad1s1      8    freebsd      165
>>156296385          2  156301487        -     12     unused        0
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>>So - what do I need to do to take the 1st line and merge it into the
>>existing system?
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>That depends on what you want to do with the space.  It would be
>relatively complicated (but not impossible) to merge it into an
>existing file system.  If you just want to create a another file
>system, just create a new partition in the partition editor, set it to
>tye 165, then in the label editor create one (or just possibly more
>than one) file system.  Both here and in the label editor, use the W
>command to actually write the stuff to disk.
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>>Sorry for the formatting
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>Looks fine to me.
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>Greg
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I assume doing this while in single user mode. Otherwise I am getting an 
error: unable to write to disk.
But as you mentioned,. I would prefer to somehow merge it into the 
current FBSD file system.


Chris