From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 11:42:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cdknet.com (mail.cdknet.com [206.20.234.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87B337B4C5 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glass ([192.168.0.25]) by mail.cdknet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id OAA26451; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:44:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dyu@cdknet.com) Reply-To: From: "Derrick Yu" To: "'nathan'" Cc: Subject: RE: To enlarge a partition.... Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:41:47 -0400 Message-ID: <001401c03f7c$655de200$1900a8c0@glass> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <39F87908.DCC01D8A@telecom.ksu.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for all reply. -----Original Message----- From: nathan@telecom.ksu.edu [mailto:nathan@telecom.ksu.edu]On Behalf Of nathan Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 2:34 PM To: dyu@cdknet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To enlarge a partition.... i'm actually preparing to do this exact thing. my /usr is full also i've bought a new drive. gonna put it in, and create a new slice and mount as /usr_new then, just copy (using technique of your choice) /usr to /usr_new then, you can simply edit /etc/fstab and swap /usr_new for /usr then reboot (or you can do the switch manually and not have to reboot) that's it i've done it before and its the most straightforward/painless procedure to "resize" full slices (for me at least) good luck! nathan Derrick Yu wrote: > Dear all, > > Can someone list me the steps of how to enlarge my /usr/ partition by adding > a new drive? or is it possible to do that? > Thanks guys, > > Derrick Yu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message