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 [david@apu2 ~]$ doas disklabel sd0 # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: SATA SSD duid: dab5be6fe5a0d623 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 7297 total sectors: 117231408 boundstart: 64 boundend: 117226305 drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2104448 64 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # / b: 8385933 2104512 swap # none c: 117231408 0 unused d: 8401952 10490464 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /tmp e: 8385952 18892416 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /var f: 4192960 27278368 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /usr g: 2088448 31471328 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /usr/X11R6 h: 6281424 33559776 4.2BSD 2048 16384 38128 # /usr/local i: 6297440 39841216 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /usr/ports j: 2088448 46138656 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /home k: 16771872 48227104 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /data l: 52227328 64998976 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12958 # /project
