Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:28:53 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Andrew Musselman <Andrew@cwu.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk space question Message-ID: <20040708222853.GG24348@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <s0ed5f3a.091@hermes.cwu.edu> References: <s0ed5f3a.091@hermes.cwu.edu>
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--TIEGfCGDzZzDroj5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:50:03PM -0700, Andrew Musselman wrote: > Hi again-- >=20 > I'm stumped on this problem, and I'm sure lots of people have > encountered the same thing: >=20 > I would like more space in /usr. I've installed another drive and set > it to mount to /mnt. I would like to make FreeBSD(5.2.1) think that > /usr also includes this new drive. >=20 > Is there a way to do what I want to do? >=20 > Thanks, > Andrew You cannot "merge" the new disk into your current /usr partition, but you could mount the disk somewhere on /usr, such as /usr/home, or some other place where you expect the majority of data will be going. You could also use dump/restore to dump your current /usr partition to your new disk and then alter /etc/fstab to mount the new disk at /usr instead of the old partition. This might only be useful if the new disk is significantly larger than your current /usr partition. Nathan --=20 PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xD8527E49 --TIEGfCGDzZzDroj5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7cqlO0ZIEthSfkkRAs6RAJ98u+2xNTzbGFzttQIFE41ypUyiLgCghMlN IAkv6OwHQ2nc3hsYAK7RYjo= =rTEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TIEGfCGDzZzDroj5--
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