From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 10 20:51:52 2004 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 4ECD116A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:51:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net (outbound05.telus.net [199.185.220.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4A543D31 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:51:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from graham.north@telus.net) Received: from phoenix ([142.173.17.246]) by priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040710205151.UADV25281.priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net@phoenix> for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:51:51 -0600 Message-ID: <003e01c466bf$ff07e270$627ba8c0@phoenix> From: "Graham North" To: Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:53:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree 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, 10 Jul 2004 20:51:52 -0000 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/