From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 7:18:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4351137B780 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12ieFw-00025o-00; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:18:04 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12ieFw-0007wo-00; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:18:04 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:18:04 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Noor Dawod Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enlarging mount partitions. Message-ID: <20000421151804.I42478@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Noor Dawod wrote: > I have a /usr partition that I want to enlarge, is it possible, and how? No, not without wiping it, changing its size, and restoring from your backup. What you can do is move some stuff within /usr to another partition. Say your /usr/local is quite big and getting bigger, you could put that on another disk mounted on /usr/local. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message