On 05.11.18 19:47, David Higgs wrote: > I read both the FAQ section and the growfs(8) man page but I am not > yet confident that what I want to do is supported / safe. > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#GrowPartition > > I started with a number of partitions and a bunch of free space. I > later needed the free space and allocated a /project partition that > went to the end of my disk. More recently, I emptied the /data > partition immediately prior. Now I would like to use growfs(8) to > merge this unused space with the /project partition without losing any > of the existing data. > > See disklabel output below. I have only grown partitions "down", > never in the other direction. Am I being overly paranoid? > > Thanks. > > --david >
As the FAQ entry states, you can use growfs(8) if the empty space is after the existing partition, not prior. You can only grow a partition "down", never "up". What you want to do would require the following steps: 1. Create a new partition on the free space 2. Move all data to the new partition 3. Remove the existing /project partition 4. Use growfs(8) on the new partition to include the space from the old /project partition Cheers, Bruno
