Date: 08 Aug 2003 13:51:51 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs how-to? Message-ID: <444r0savgo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1060193827.95208.15.camel@borges> References: <1060193827.95208.15.camel@borges>
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Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com> writes: > My old 20G drive in my 5.1-RELEASE box started to die last week, so I > got a new drive (a 40G Seagate) and used Norton Ghost to copy over > everything from the old drive to the new drive. At the moment, FreeBSD > still thinks I've only got a 20G drive and I have 20 Gigs of unused > space. I was thinking of using growfs in order to grow my /usr > partition to fill the rest of the drive. I've read the man pages for > growfs, bsdlabel and fdisk but I'm a bit confused about how I should go > about using these tools to do what I want as I've never really used them > before except on a new installation. So here are my questions: how > safe is it to use growfs for this purpose? Can anyone provide or does > anyone know of a good step-by-step tutorial for this sort of thing? I > searched around on the web but couldn't find anything useful. This is the type of thing it's for. It's a pretty simple interface, so I don't know how much more of a "how-to" you could get than the manual already provides...
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