From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 07:39:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06753 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.insolwwb.net (ns.insolwwb.net [206.31.149.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06728 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgrommet@insolwwb.net) Received: from work2.insolwwb.net (work2.insolwwb.net [208.150.248.12]) by ns.insolwwb.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA10413 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:11:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <004301bdee12$8d902ca0$0cf896d0@work2.insolwwb.net> From: "Mike Grommet" To: Subject: repartition a partition Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:40:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As many of you may have noticed, I have been having problems with a DPT raid controller and I am wanting to try a suggested fix... the fix suggested by Chris Johnson was to make all my partitions 1 gig or less, then tar up the /usr partition, copy it over to my var partition, delete the usr partition and then set it up with the full size with the remaining unallocated space on the drive... I'm just not sure how to proceed here and what tools I need to use Are there any guides / FAQS / howtos for such things? Any advice would be definately appreciated. Mike Grommet System Admin, and all around nice guy Internet Solutions, Inc. mgrommet@insolwwb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message