Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:11:25 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can I delete a partition (or is it a slice?) Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030616120100.00a47500@127.0.0.1>
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I have a chance to get my hands on a 4-GB hard drive that's being replaced by a 40-GB drive. My other machine really needs more space (it also has a 4-GB drive), and I'd like to move the /usr/home slice (or is it partition?) to the new(er) HDD and delete the /usr/home slice from the older drive. I presume the space would then be available to the /usr partition (the two are adjacent and /usr/home was created after /usr). Would deleting the slice cause my partition table to be rewritten with disastrous results? Or would it be better to set up three slices, for /, /var, and /usr, on the new drive, transfer the data from the old drive with backup and restore, backing up the contents of /usr/home to a tarball on the new drive, then repartition the old drive with a single slice, /usr/home, and copy the backup tarball? Also, since these two drives would be on the same cable, would using tar to transfer the data be faster than backup and restore? -- Roger
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