> Am 13.06.2022 um 10:21 schrieb Stuart Henderson :
>
> On 2022-06-13, Mike Fischer 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.
Ok, thanks! I thought I missed something ;-)
>
>> 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.
# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 615M108M476M18%/
/dev/sd0k 3.7G798M2.7G22%/home
/dev/sd0d 863M8.0K820M 0%/tmp
/dev/sd0f 2.3G1.7G555M76%/usr
/dev/sd0g 648M299M317M48%/usr/X11R6
/dev/sd0l 4.8G2.2G2.4G48%/usr/local
/dev/sd0j 5.2G2.0K4.9G 0%/usr/obj
/dev/sd0i 1.4G968M402M71%/usr/src
/dev/sd0e 1.3G425M806M35%/var
#
24% (555M) free seems ok for now, but thanks for the heads-up.
Mike
