From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 18:38:46 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 5AB2F16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-97.apple.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4C743D1F for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:38:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff_lamarche@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hBD2cjiQ011074 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:38:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (ny-utica8d-104.albyny.adelphia.net.110.21.67.in-addr.arpa [67.21.110.104] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id hBD2ciA6002972 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:38:44 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <788426CA-2D15-11D8-9865-000A95A04BD8@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jeff LaMarche Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:38:44 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: growfs on / 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: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 02:38:46 -0000 Hey all... Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my issue by using growfs - the next slice after / is /tmp which has plenty of room free, and can afford to be reduced by a little. It doesn't seem to be affecting system use except that I can't add new users. Here's what I look like now: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127682 -9010 108% / /dev/ad0s1f 257998 1254 236106 1% /tmp /dev/ad0s1g 18359694 4955608 11935312 29% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 257998 8400 228960 4% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc I understand the process in general, but am a little afraid of hosing the box in the process; most of the stuff I've seen assumes a greater familiarity with tools like disklabel than I have. Does anyone know of a step-by-step tutorial or article on doing this? If not, would anyone be so kind as to give me a high-level breakdown? Alternatively, if anyone knows how I can free up some space in / perhaps by moving something to another slice, I'd be open to that possibility. Thanks in advance Jeff LaMarche