Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:38:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Carsten Bertelsen <cabe@q8.dk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to expand root filesystem on freebsd 4.2 ?? Message-ID: <20010310093845.C15116@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <F7E5B841C83AD411BC5E0008C70D5CD0277F18@EXC02>; from cabe@q8.dk on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:01:13PM %2B0100 References: <F7E5B841C83AD411BC5E0008C70D5CD0277F18@EXC02>
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On Friday, 9 March 2001 at 13:01:13 +0100, Carsten Bertelsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know how til expand root filesystem on freebsd 4.2 release ???
> Any links ??
>
> A solution is to:
> boot on "something" and get a command-prompt
> backup all partitions,
> do disklabel, etc
> restore
>
> Is it possible to get a command-prompt booting on 4.2 release cd ??
I'm not sure what you mean by command prompt booting.
You can do something pretty close to what you're suggesting like this:
1. Back up the partitions.
2. Reboot from CD-ROM and repartition, using the 'w' option to write
the configuration immediately.
3. Start an "emergency" shell and restore to the new partitions.
You'd obviously need a backup program which is supplied on the base
CD-ROM, such as tar. I also haven't tried this; you may have trouble
getting the emergency shell started. An alternative would be one of
the canned PicoBSD floppies, assuming your machine has a floppy drive.
Greg
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