Re: Resizing partitions on expanded vmware disk
On 08/20/11 11:05, Yannis Milios wrote: Ok i created a new scsi hd (30gb) and put it as second disk on vm. Booted OpenBSD and on boot prompt i gave boot sd0a:/bsd.rd Then i choose (I) for installation and selected the 2nd disk (sd1).Using disklabel it automatically created all partitions and i just resized f: (/usr) partition and gave it extra space by shrinking k: partition (/home) saved the settings but i did not proceed to the installation,i just reboot the vm. I booted normally on sd0 and ran disklabel -h sd0 and then disklabel -h sd1 and i confirmed that partitions are exactly the same on both disks with the exception of f: (/usr) which now is bigger.So far so good...now i reboot again boot sd0a/bsd.rd and i select (S) shell option.At this point i am a bit confused how i will mount the 2 disks and copy all the contents from sd0 to sd1 by using cp command? thank you again On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Dmitrij Czarkoffwrote: The easier way - create a new disc image and use bsd.rd to partition and label it as needed. When done with it, mount all of Your volumes and use tar or cp to populate the new image. A side effect of this approach is that You can test the new image before loosing the old one. cp does not preserve hard links tar or pax should be used. You should do something like this to mount and copy.. mount /dev/sd0a /mnt mount /dev/sd0k /mnt/home mount /dev/sd0f /mnt/usr ... mount other partitions for disk sd0 mount /dev/sd1a /mnt2 mount /dev/sd1k /mnt2/home mount /dev/sd1f /mnt2/usr ... mount other partitions for disk sd1 cd /mnt pax -rw -p e . /mnt2 or tar -cf - . | tar -xphf - -C /mnt2 /usr/mdec/installboot /mnt2/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd1
Re: Resizing partitions on expanded vmware disk
Ok i created a new scsi hd (30gb) and put it as second disk on vm. Booted OpenBSD and on boot prompt i gave boot sd0a:/bsd.rd Then i choose (I) for installation and selected the 2nd disk (sd1).Using disklabel it automatically created all partitions and i just resized f: (/usr) partition and gave it extra space by shrinking k: partition (/home) saved the settings but i did not proceed to the installation,i just reboot the vm. I booted normally on sd0 and ran disklabel -h sd0 and then disklabel -h sd1 and i confirmed that partitions are exactly the same on both disks with the exception of f: (/usr) which now is bigger.So far so good...now i reboot again boot sd0a/bsd.rd and i select (S) shell option.At this point i am a bit confused how i will mount the 2 disks and copy all the contents from sd0 to sd1 by using cp command? thank you again On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote: > The easier way - create a new disc image and use bsd.rd to partition and > label it as needed. When done with it, mount all of Your volumes and use tar > or cp to populate the new image. A side effect of this approach is that You > can test the new image before loosing the old one.
Re: Resizing partitions on expanded vmware disk
On 2011-08-20, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote: > The easier way - create a new disc image and use bsd.rd to partition, label > and format it as needed. When done with it, mount all of Your volumes and > use tar or cp to populate the new image. you could also install on a separate vm and sync files over the network (perhaps 'ssh dump -0 -f- /partition ... | restore rf -'). whichever way you do it, take care with the root partition; if /boot moves on the disk you will need to re-run installboot(8) - it might be simpler to just copy the files in /etc (also take care with fstab if your partitions are not in the same order on the second disk or if you use DUIDs rather than the /dev/sd0x format). > You could also use disklabel and growfs growfs only lets you expand the end of the filesystem into adjacent space, it's the wrong tool for this job.
Re: Resizing partitions on expanded vmware disk
The easier way - create a new disc image and use bsd.rd to partition, label and format it as needed. When done with it, mount all of Your volumes and use tar or cp to populate the new image. A side effect of this approach is that You can test the new image before loosing the old one. You could also use disklabel and growfs, but this way You would still want to backup Your data, so just using a new image is somewhat cleaner.
Resizing partitions on expanded vmware disk
Hello! I'm testing openbsd 4.9 on vmware workstation 7.0.2.Initially i installed the system on 10gb scsi disk on vm and openbsd created and sized automatically all the partitions.Trying to install some packages with pkg_add i realized that /usr was getting full so i powered off the vm and expanded the hard disk from 10gb to 20gb sucessfully.Now i'm trying to recognize how can i expand all partitions automatically or just the /usr using the new space without loosing the data.I read on FAQ that there is a way it can be done using disklabel and newfs but i should move all the data on a temporary location,create new partition size and the move them back.It seems ok but i would prefer the extra 10gb space to be applied on all partitions accordingly and not just to one of them.I hope you understand what i'm trying to say cause my english are not very good :) thank you
