Date: 09 Jul 2004 10:19:22 +0200 From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk space question Message-ID: <87bripoanp.fsf@tosh.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <s0ed5f3a.091@hermes.cwu.edu> References: <s0ed5f3a.091@hermes.cwu.edu>
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Andrew Musselman <Andrew@cwu.EDU> writes: > 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. > > Is there a way to do what I want to do? Yes. You could copy say, the contents of /usr/local to /mnt, then replace /usr/local with a symlink to /mnt. Not pretty, should be done from single user mode only and you'd need somewhere else to mount things temporarily, but it *will*, sort of, do what you want. A more permanent solution would be something along the lines of (assuming there's a usable file system at /mnt) # cd /usr/local # tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf - 2>/var/tmp/mycopyerrors) check /var/tmp/mycopyerrors for any errors ( if you're not in single user already, go there NOW ) # mv /usr/local /usr/local.old # mkdir /usr/local #vi /etc/fstab edit so your new disk gets mounted as /usr/local, save # reboot check that your system works ok, when you're certain everything's ok, # rm -rf /usr/local.old /var/tmp/mycopyerrors untested, from memory, adjust as needed, and if it kills your puppy, I will *not* revive it. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"
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