From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 11 18:27:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12A81065672 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnmtw@lazlarlyricon.com) Received: from mailgw9.surf-town.net (mail9.surf-town.net [212.97.132.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B338FC0A for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:27:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mailgw9.surf-town.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 064009BA53; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:03:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw9.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF219BA42; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:03:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mailgw9.surf-town.net X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 tagged_above=-999 required=7 tests=[RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1] Received: from mailgw9.surf-town.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgw9.surf-town.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id A382E-HXJvM1; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:03:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lazlar.kicks-ass.net (c-b486e355.09-42-6e6b7010.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [85.227.134.180]) by mailgw9.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3DF9BA54; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:03:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C127A5A.2030306@lazlarlyricon.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:03:06 +0200 From: Rolf G Nielsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100609 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resize freebsd slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:27:22 -0000 2010-06-11 19:17, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: > ok,but if i delete this 2 slices then i will delete my entire system.. > > then should i have to install it from the beggining,but i don't want to do > that. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Read my previous description of how I would have approached the problem, and the answers shall come to you... In case you don't know how to back up data, read the dump(8) and restore(8) man pages. If you don't have access to any external space, e.g. a USB disk or network access to sufficient storage space, you may need to consider backing up only the important files from the /home partition and personalised config files from /etc and /usr/local/etc to a DVD, reinstall the system from scratch (the installation program lets you delete the s3 and s4 slices and create a new, bigger s3 slice), and then restore the backed up files. If you don't even have a DVD recorder, try accessing the Linux slice. I've never used it myself, but FreeBSD should be able to access ext* file systems, and store the backup there. Do this BEFORE reinstalling.