Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:53:47 -0700 From: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree Message-ID: <003e01c466bf$ff07e270$627ba8c0@phoenix>
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Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it = only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G = of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98. = After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr = slice is almost out of file handles. A sensible solution.. how about = removing my 800M of Windows and capturing it for FBSD. NOTE - please = read end of email concerning inodes. Looking for suggestions and warnings..! Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my = preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the = others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I = have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am = not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. Something important to note, I am not out of disk space but have run = out of file handles (BSD calls them Inodes) - so it really is nodes that = I need to recapture not space - might this have some implications that = necessitate a complete reformat or re-install?? Suggestions and comments greatly appreciated. Cheers, Graham/
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