From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 13:46:18 2002 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 2ADAD37B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20809.mail.yahoo.com (web20809.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3C9A43E31 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blairwag1965@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020731204614.47546.qmail@web20809.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.209.205.223] by web20809.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:46:14 PDT Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:46:14 -0700 (PDT) From: William Blair Wagner Subject: extending the /usr filesystem - HELP! To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Gang, Somewhat new to FreeBSD - I've found myself building and installing many of the ports that I never thought I'd install. so far, so good. However, I made the /usr(/dev/ad2s1g) filesystem only 3GB. Now, I'm not yet out of space, but seeing as I really like having all this source code to peruse, I'd really like to keep it all, and get more. I also created a large 10GB file system and another 4GB file system, called /usr3(/dev/ad2s1h) and /usr4(/dev/ad2s1d) respecively. I'd like to blow away /usr3 and/usr4, then give about 6GB of space (now freed up) to /usr, and create one final large partition/slice and mount it on /usr3. The good news is that the whole disk is dedicated to FreeBSD, and /usr4 is the last (center slice) on the disk. /usr3 is the next to the last slice on the disk, and /usr is next to /usr3. Ive been all over the handbook, along with other documents and articles. I can see to run /stand/sysinstall to do the fdisk and label editor work. But, I'd really like to know that I'm doing this right. I figured I'd delete the 2 slices at the end, and give 6 more GB to /usr, and set the rest as one large slice. Once done, how do I extend the /usr filesystem without losing its contents. I'm not usbscribed to this mailing list - so please reply directly to me as well as the list, with useful suggestions. TIA - you *ARE* the best! ===== -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Blair Wagner : Education is not always knowing the answer blairwag1965@yahoo.com : ..but rather knowing where to look for it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message