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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:24:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To:        mavilde <mavilde@cmn.comnexo.pt>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: New hard drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971031102258.5517A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <c=PT%a=nex400%p=COMNEXO%l=NEX400/GATEWAY/000117C5@GATEWAY.comnexo.pt>

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> I'm i good customer of your operating system FreeBSD, i have it
> installed in several machines and im getting pretty happy with it's
> functionality. Now i have this problem, and would like to have some
> specialized help before do something that could destroy my system,
> that's this:
> 
> When i first installed FreeBSD, version 2.1.7, i had only one hard
> drive, these are it's features:
> 
> # disklabel -r sd0
> 
> # /dev/rsd0c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: sd0s1
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 246
> sectors/unit: 3967992
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:    65536        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 -
> 4*)
>   b:   151680    65536      swap                        # (Cyl.    4*-
> 13*)
>   c:  3967992        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
> 246*)
>   e:    61440   217216    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.   13*-
> 17*)
>   f:  3689336   278656    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.   17*-
> 246*)
> 
> Now i wanted to add a new hard drive with similar features the main
> difference is that it has 4GigaBytes of space. I hadded it, it is
> already recognized as sd1 when i run sysinstall. Iīve not done any
> configuration regarding this hard drive.
> 
> What i wanted to do was to enlarge the actual partitions wich are
> already full with no more space left, mainly /var. 
> Is there any way i can expand the actual partitions to the new hard
> drive,or to move some partitions to the new hard drive and change the
> space reserved for the actual partitions without losing any data or
> destroying the filesystem?
> 
> I donīt know if i was very clear i'll sumarize what i want:
> 
> My system is full, i'm trying to add a new hard drive so i can fix this
> space problem, i don't want to change or loose data stored on the actual
> hard drive.
> 
> If you could give me some help i really would apreciate it, 
> thank you very much
> 
> Mavilde Anjos
> Tel: +351 1 3183000
> email: mavilde@cmn.comnexo.pt
> 

Why not move whatever filesystem is full over to the new drive, and mount
whatever filesystem that is on the new drive? 




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