From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 3:22:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athena.za.net (athena.za.net [196.30.167.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA34437B40E for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 03:22:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jus (helo=localhost) by athena.za.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15lpMJ-0001pV-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:22:35 +0200 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:22:35 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford X-Sender: jus@athena.za.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading HDD space on existing installation.. ideas? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, My current workstation is running FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE, and resides on a 10.2gb HDD. It looks like this: /dev/ad0s2a 48M 35M 9.2M 79% / /dev/ad0s2f 6.8G 5.8G 537M 92% /usr /dev/ad0s2e 19M 15M 2.5M 86% /var ad0s1 is the first partition on the drive, which contains Win98se. Now, as you can see, /usr is running out of space quite fast.. during today's general worktime I hit -68.5M and realised that I am in need of an HDD upgrade for some more space. Now, the problem presents itself in that, I have been using this workstation since 4.0-RELEASE (and have been tracking 4.x-STABLE via cvsup), and it is nothing trivial for me to just reinstall a fresh FreeBSD and start over -- my machine has years of configuration, software installation, etc, behind it, so I need to find some way to move to a new, bigger HDD, while still exactly preserving my system.. not just /usr, everything, like /etc, /var/, and so on. Various suggestions have been made, but I'm not sure what the best route is to follow.. any suggestions, anyone? Many thanks in advance, Justin PS: Kindly CC me any answers as I am not subscribed to the questions list. If this question is not suitable for this list, kindly forward it to the appropriate one. -- Justin Stanford Internet/Network Security & Solutions Consultant 4D Digital Security http://www.4dds.co.za Cell: (082) 7402741 E-Mail: jus@security.za.net PGP Key: http://www.security.za.net/jus-pgp-key.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message