On 2022-06-13, Mike Fischer <fischer+o...@lavielle.com> wrote: > After solving a recent problem on a VM where the /usr/local was full I was > left with a disklabel that had a hole of unused space in it (see below for > details). I was wondering if there is a way to compact the partitions, i.e. > move the partitions following the deleted one up to fill the hole, > potentially leaving corresponding free space at the end. > > I’d prefer to not have to use dd(1) on the raw device to move the data? I’d > hope for something that is smart enough to adjust the disklabel after moving > the bytes. Wishful thinking?
There's no good way to do this. My preference would be to attach a new virtual disk, partition either manually or according to current auto defaults for the larger disk, dump|restore and run installboot, then remove the old virtual disk. > 16 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > f: 5056800 8025952 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # /usr You might find this a little tight too after some updates. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
