From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 00:10:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA14249 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:10:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA14244 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA19396; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd019394; Mon Jan 12 00:05:29 1998 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:02:22 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Gordon Wang cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: space manegement In-Reply-To: <34B89A90.45AC@tpts5.seed.net.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Gordon Wang wrote: > Dear Sir > I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user. > My /root space is 32M. > What should I do if I want to make 1t 64M. > Please help me I presume you don't want to re-install.. you need to find the extra space somewhere.. which means you should shrink another partition somewhere. you will need to back it up and take all the files of it before destroying it and re-making it smaller. You can then use the extra room to make a new 64MB partition. which you can then make the new root. Alternatively, if you need / to be larger for /tmp, then just make a new /tmp you don't say exactly what your layout is or why you want to make it bigger. julian > > Thanks a lot > > Gordon > > >