From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 15: 8:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF6737B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:08:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A78796A90D; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:38:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:38:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Carsten Bertelsen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to expand root filesystem on freebsd 4.2 ?? Message-ID: <20010310093845.C15116@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cabe@q8.dk on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:01:13PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message