From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 11 07:00:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23242 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23237 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (roman.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA23604; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:59:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3649A68C.741EAB6C@graphnet.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:00:28 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Bradshaw , "q's" Subject: Re: Increasing /usr size References: <19981111145208.19259.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why not just make a new fs (i.e. /usr2)? I think there IS a way to actually add the space to /usr, but it would be more complicated, and I think you'd have to newfs the whole space which would mean losing all the data currently on the slice. Hth, Roman. Marc Bradshaw wrote: > > I installled FreeBSD 2.2.5 and W95% on a 2Gb disk, and gave FreeBSD > 1.2Gb and Windows 0.8Gb. What was I thinking of ???. /usr is getting > full and I want rid of Windows so I can have it all for FreeBSD. Now, > can turn over the windows partition to FreeBSD easily enough, but how > can I (or can I ?) use the free space to expand /usr?. > Help much appreciated... > > Tad Bradshaw > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Roman Katsnelson <-> romank@graphnet.com UNIX Engineer <-> rk.graphnet.com Graphnet, Inc. <-> www.graphnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message