Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:39:40 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: "Michael A. Alestock" <michaela@bsd.maa-net.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a new IDE harddrive Message-ID: <20030422213940.GG92029@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20030422202312.GF92029@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <200304221610.21113.michaela@bsd.maa-net.net> <20030422202312.GF92029@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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--zGQnqpIoxlsbsOfg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 01:23:12PM -0700, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 04:10:21PM -0700, Michael A. Alestock wrote: > > I have a question...I already know how to add a new harddrive to my sys= tem,=20 > > however, what I wanted to know is how do I use the new harddrive's spac= e to=20 > > add more space to my current filesystem's directories? Do I have to LI= NK the=20 > > new harddrive to the old drive? How would I go about this process?? > >=20 > > Thanks! : ) >=20 > It's in the FreeBSD FAQ. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#ADDING-DI= SKS >=20 > Nathan I apologize, after re-reading your email and then fully looking through the FAQ to which I directed you, I see that the FAQ in question doesn't much cover your concern, although it does have a tiny section on moving a portion of a filesystem to a different disk. You could do something akin to what section 4.2 of that faq suggests. You sould be able to use that extra space at any place in your current filesystem - and of course, have it mounted automatically via an entry in /etc/fstab. As far as distributing a little of the space across many directories that currently reside on one filesyste, I don't think this is possible - or at least not easily accomplished. As was briefly covered in the faq, I have had good luck with mounting my new disk (or slice) to a temporary mount point, then copying the contents of the dir (or filesystem) that I want to expand to this temp. mount point. Then delete or backup the original dir and mount your new disk or slice at the old location. There may also be some limited cases where growfs(8), but this pertains to changes on the same physical disk. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --zGQnqpIoxlsbsOfg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+pbacWZYS9EJQoEwRAt5VAKC5k3CJ5JlMzAphbue6idztY7kOBgCdFfb3 09a0ViHTHnmrzLO3punbrk8= =uxET -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zGQnqpIoxlsbsOfg--
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