From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 16:05:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DB216A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266F643D58 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alias2@crotchett.com) Received: from crotchett.com ([68.209.222.4]) by imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.netESMTP <20031231000505.RLFF1950.imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net@crotchett.com>; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:05:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF212AF.1040608@crotchett.com> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:05:03 -0600 From: Darren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jesse@wingnet.net References: <3FF190B7.8030905@usmstudent.com> <200312301058.25742.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: combining partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:05:09 -0000 Thanks all. I just took the easy way out and copied my distfiles to /hd2 and then sym linked them back to /usr/ports. See it now :) scsibox# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 126M 38M 78M 33% / /dev/da1s1e 2.0G 1.3G 532M 72% /hd2 /dev/da0s1f 252M 3.3M 229M 1% /tmp /dev/da0s1g 3.2G 1.5G 1.4G 51% /usr /dev/da0s1e 252M 68M 164M 29% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc Now, I must ask a dumb question. Exactly what are distfiles? I'm not a noobie to FreeBSD, relatively speaking. It's just that once I set something up on FreeBSD, it just sits there and works. I rarely have to muck around too much besides keeping the installed software up to date. Although, I'm working on moving my win98se printer over to FreeBSD. So, you may see me post again soon :). TIA, backdoc Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Kent Stewart wrote: > > >>On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:50 am, backdoc wrote: >> >>>I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger >>>partition. >>> >>>Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else? >>> >>>I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. >>> >>>My partition layout is: >>>scsibox# df -h >>>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >>>/dev/da0s1a 126M 39M 77M 33% / >>>/dev/da1s1e 2.0G 185M 1.7G 10% /hd2 >>>/dev/da0s1f 252M 4.7M 227M 2% /tmp >>>/dev/da0s1g 3.2G 2.9G 58M 98% /usr >>>/dev/da0s1e 252M 67M 165M 29% /var >>>procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc >>> >> >>You would probably find it easier to determine what is eating up your disk >>space and move that to /hd2. For example, my /usr/ports/distfiles runs >>around 1.5 GB. Just moving distfiles to hd2 and linking it to >>/usr/ports/distfiles would free up a lot of space. On one machine that I >>don't use a lot of HD space, I mounted a 10 GB slice as /usr/ports. > > > If you DO want to consolodate those partitions, you'll probably have to > back them up using dump, delete both partitions, create the consolodated > large partition, and then restore the backup. >