Crimson Refresh

With a little bit of spare time, I decided I should clean-up the disk allocation on crimson, and remove a redundant FreeBSD install. As part of this I also found I had forgotten about 130GB of disk space, so that was a bit of a bonus.

The plan was to

1. Remove the unused FreeBSD instance, chrome.
2. Consolidate the FreeBSD crimson slices of tank and tank1 into one, placed on the largest disk (250GB).
3. Reformat the old tank partition as EXT4 and allocate it to Debian silver, so that silver controls all of hd1.
4. Install OpenBSD (as chrome) on all of hd2.

This was a relativley simple exercise, but I did learn (or re-learn?) something about FreeBSD gpart. It is not possible to destroy a partiton until all the child slices have been destroyed. If this is not done, you will see the rather ambiguous error message:

  Device busy.

Anyway, this give me a much simpler organisation on the crimson hardware: