Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:05:34 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Noor Dawod" <noor@comrax.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitions? Message-ID: <200004301705.e3UH5Yb42639@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <AJEKICLEDNDCBKDJGHGFIEMNCHAA.noor@comrax.com>
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:57:16 +0200 "Noor Dawod" wrote: +------------------ | Hello, | | How can I create new partitions on a living system? I have a 4.0-STABLE | system. | (sysinstall says there are no disks, thus I cannot use it) | | Noor +------------------ You can't create a new partition on a disk that is fully used. To split up an existing partition you have to first back up everything on it. Then repartition and newfs the new partitions then update /etc/fstab to know about the new partitions then recover the data from backup. If you simply need to free up some space on a near full partition, and you have plenty of space on a different partition. Then you can move less critical hierarchies to the other partition and making a symbolic link to the new place. Say for example that /usr/ports was huge and you had a /home partition that has plenty of space. Here is a command sequence that I would use to do this. mkdir /home/usr.ports cd /usr/ports pax -rwvpe * /home/usr.ports mv /usr/ports /usr/ports- ln -s /home/usr.ports /usr/ports rm -r /usr/ports Some other thoughts: Your boot drive should always have the following hierarchies on it: dev, bin, root, boot, sbin, etc, stand, modules. Good luck chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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