From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 12: 1:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C057737B406 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f61J1dN10770 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA13613 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:01:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 99528 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Jul 2001 19:00:54 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:00:54 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Brandon Peyton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change disk size.. Message-ID: <20010701210054.A97322@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Brandon Peyton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i 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 On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:39:08PM +1000, Brandon Peyton wrote: > Hello, > > I need some help here. Obviously I've got a problem as I can hardly get > anything to work now that my / is full. > > I cannot afford to reformat as this is runs my mailserver/dns/webserver/etc. > My issue comes down to how can I create more room in my root directory. Its > clear I made a fatal mistake by only allowing 50M. > 50M should be enough. You should try to find out what is using all that space. Then move some of it to /usr and make a symlink to it. > What I am trying to figure out is how to add capacity to / without loosing > my files. I would like to simply reformat and change it which would take a > matter of minutes but I cannot. I would like to have at least 500M or a gig > as my /. I am afraid it is not possible to change the size of a filesystem without repartitioning the disk. > > What do you think? What is the best way to do this without loosing data. (I > do not want to use any kind of partition magic programs as I have had > nothing but failure from them). > AFAIK there is no partition magic type of program that can handle resizing of FFS partisions anyway. > Thanks > brandon > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 48M 47M -2.2M 105% / > /dev/ad0s1f 5.7G 408M 4.8G 8% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 19M 3.2M 15M 18% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message