If you can afford running 7-CURRENT, you should really try ZFS. Even if you don't want to use ZFS file systems, you can still use ZFS ZVOLs and run UFS on top of them. For example:         # zpool create tank mirror da0 da1         # zfs create -V 10g tank/foo         # zfs create -V 20g tank/bar         # diskinfo -v /dev/zvol/tank/{foo,bar}         /dev/zvol/tank/foo                 512             # sectorsize                 10737418240     # mediasize in bytes (10G)                 20971520        # mediasize in sectors         /dev/zvol/tank/bar                 512             # sectorsize                 21474836480     # mediasize in bytes (20G)                 41943040        # mediasize in sectors         # newfs /dev/zvol/tank/foo         # mount /dev/zvol/tank/foo /foo         # newfs /dev/zvol/tank/bar         # mount /dev/zvol/tank/bar /bar Now, when you want to grow tank/foo:         # umount /foo         # zfs set volsize=30g tank/foo         # growfs /dev/zvol/tank/foo         # mount /dev/zvol/tank/foo /foo Not to mention you have fast UFS snapshots, clones and other cool stuff:)