shrinking of FreeBSD root partition on GPT
Coert
lgroups at vlymskerp.net
Sat Nov 8 10:58:32 UTC 2014
Hello all!
Just installed FreeBSD on my home server, (used to be linux)
When I did the installation, I used the installer defaults, and it gave me the
following:
gpart show ada0
=> 34 488397101 ada0 GPT (233G)
34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K)
162 480247680 2 freebsd-ufs (229G)
480247842 8149292 3 freebsd-swap (3.9G)
488397134 1 - free - (512B)
I would like to shrink my root partition, (GPT partition 2).
After reading through the handbook, I can adapt to shrinking instead of
growing,
What I am going to try is:
1. Boot from LiveCD
2. do a dump -0 of the current root partition
3. delete the root GPT partition, and create a new smaller GPT partition.
4.do a newfs on the new slice, and restore the dump.
Do I need to restore any bootcode after this? I read about bsdlabel, but that
seems to be only for MBR scheme?
Will this work? or did i miss a step?
When that is done, I will create a freebsd-zfs partition in the freed space on
the disk. (Will rather still keep freebsd root on UFS)
Kind regards,
Coert
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