From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 11: 0:31 2002 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 C9C3437B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3AC143E72 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7GI0Klt002021; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:00:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7GI0KGJ002020; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:00:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:00:15 -0500 From: David Kelly To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! Message-ID: <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:35:56PM -0400, MET wrote: > I'm dumb. I just realized that on my laptop (running FreeBSD) I didn't > allocate all of the space on my disk that I should have. Basically, I > have 9 Gig's just sitting there doing NOTHING. I'd like to attach it to > my /usr partition as that's where I would have put it in the first place > had I not been stupid. > > So how would I go about doing this? One way is to leave the existing /usr alone. Partition, label, and format the extra space. Mount it someplace such as /usr1. Or better yet mount it as /home and move your user account(s) over to the new space. After all, you already have everything installed so you seem ot have enough space on /usr already and would need space for personal playing. If /usr is too lean for future use such as having enough space for rebuilding the system then "mkdir /home/obj" and "rm -rf /usr/obj; ln -s /home/obj /usr/obj". Can do the same thing for /usr/ports, and /usr/src, altho I suggest one use "mv". I have moved /usr/obj and /usr/ports this way on several machines. FreeBSD is quite happy with a symbolic link for these. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message