From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 8 22:31:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E03E16A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:31:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8CB43D2F for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:31:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: vJl2Y+roUjLKLKU7VxrSjw 1089325810 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F23C11879; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1BihNt-000481-6s; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:28:53 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:28:53 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Andrew Musselman Message-ID: <20040708222853.GG24348@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Musselman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TIEGfCGDzZzDroj5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk space question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 22:31:10 -0000 --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--