On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote,
without trimming:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at
freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 20:34:24 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
>>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org>
wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 18:51:04 -0700, Donald Wilde
wrote:
>>>>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at
freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:36:23 -0700, Donald
Wilde wrote:
>>>>>>> All,
...
This would be much more readable if you trimmed unrelated
content.>> That's really puzzling. It seems that it gave you much more than
you
>> asked for.
>>
>> Try this in single user mode: modify the size of the swap partition to
>> 30 GB. I haven't used MBR partitions for years now, but I believe
>> that 'bsdlabel -e' will do the trick. Just shorten the length
of the
>> b partition. You may need to 'mount -u /'. If you do it right
>> (check!), this won't harm any of the other partitions: it'll
just
>> leave 26 GB free between the swap partition and the next partition.
>>
> gpart(8) works just fine on MBR drives and partitions/slices and has a much
> friendlier user interface. "gpart resize" is the command you
want.
Thanks. I try to offer suggestions that I've tried, and offer an
example. I haven't tried 'gpart resize', but it looks much easier.
Greg
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