From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 15 22:55:10 2003 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 EEAE137B404 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexus.isprime.com (lexus.isprime.com [66.230.130.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D5443FCB for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:55:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sk@isprime.com) Received: from lexus.isprime.com (sk@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lexus.isprime.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h5G5t9r8066362; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:55:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sk@isprime.com) Received: from localhost (sk@localhost)h5G5t943066359; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:55:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: lexus.isprime.com: sk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Kupferschmidt To: Roger Merritt In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030616120100.00a47500@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I delete a partition (or is it a slice?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 05:55:11 -0000 Hello, You could simply format the new disk and mount it as /usr/home. However, you would have to mount it elsewhere temporarily to move the real /usr/home data to this new partition. I would really have to see your fstab file to see how you got it set up, but even if you have an existing partition for /usr/home it could be renamed and used for something else. Hope this info helps. Sincerely, Scott Kupferschmidt On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Roger Merritt wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >