From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 11:15:37 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 DBD9437B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transpacific.net (lincoln.transbay.net [209.133.53.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7826943F3F for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:15:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sreese@codysbooks.com) Received: from [192.168.0.24] (stalwart.codysbooks.com [209.133.54.175]) by transpacific.net (8.11.6p2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h76IFbu57520 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:15:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Reese To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Cody's Books, Inc. Message-Id: <1060193827.95208.15.camel@borges> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:17:08 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: growfs how-to? 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, 06 Aug 2003 18:15:38 -0000 [please cc: me in replies as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thank you.] Hello, My old 20G drive in my 5.1-RELEASE box started to die last week, so I got a new drive (a 40G Seagate) and used Norton Ghost to copy over everything from the old drive to the new drive. At the moment, FreeBSD still thinks I've only got a 20G drive and I have 20 Gigs of unused space. I was thinking of using growfs in order to grow my /usr partition to fill the rest of the drive. I've read the man pages for growfs, bsdlabel and fdisk but I'm a bit confused about how I should go about using these tools to do what I want as I've never really used them before except on a new installation. So here are my questions: how safe is it to use growfs for this purpose? Can anyone provide or does anyone know of a good step-by-step tutorial for this sort of thing? I searched around on the web but couldn't find anything useful. TIA, Scott