On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote,
without trimming:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 20:34:24 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
>>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 18:51:04 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
>>>>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at  9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
>>>>>>> All,
...

This would be much more readable if you trimmed unrelated content.
>> That's really puzzling.  It seems that it gave you much more than you
>> asked for.
>>
>> Try this in single user mode: modify the size of the swap partition to
>> 30 GB.  I haven't used MBR partitions for years now, but I believe
>> that 'bsdlabel -e' will do the trick.  Just shorten the length of the
>> b partition.  You may need to 'mount -u /'.  If you do it right
>> (check!), this won't harm any of the other partitions: it'll just
>> leave 26 GB free between the swap partition and the next partition.
>>
> gpart(8) works just fine on MBR drives and partitions/slices and has a much
> friendlier user interface. "gpart resize"  is the command you want.

Thanks.  I try to offer suggestions that I've tried, and offer an
example.  I haven't tried 'gpart resize', but it looks much easier.

Greg
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