Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:32:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: More pondering on new HD... ;) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061431510.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35C9CF31.BC1C074F@graphnet.com>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > > What I would like to do is add all of it to /usr > > without losing any of the data already in that partition. > > > Hi, > I am now considering something entirely different. > I am thinking of just wiping everything and resinstalling. Am I nuts? > These are my reasons: > > 1) I want to upgrade to 2.2.7 > 2) I added a new hard drive and want /usr to share it > 3) The box used to be for development and will now be strictly a server. > > So anyway, if I _do_ do this, this is what I will have: > > Master HD: 1.6 G > Slave Hd: 4.3 G > > Here's what I want: > / 100 M > swap 300 M > /var 32 M > /usr 5.5 G > > In order to accomplish this I will need the /usr fs to span actual > drives. Is this possible under 2.2.7? Not unless the disks are identical. I'd suggest creating /usr with the remaining space on the 1.6GB then create /usr2/ and dedicate the 4.3G to it. Symlink /usr/local/ and whatever else you want onto /usr2. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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