Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 11:04:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: lray@aurora.liunet.edu Cc: QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: adding new hard drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961006110019.12735K-100000@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <96100516243870@aurora.liunet.edu>
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On Sat, 5 Oct 1996 lray@aurora.liunet.edu wrote: > Hi all. > I've added a disk drive to my freebsd system I'm using as a news server. > I need to add the 2-gig of new space to the /var file system. Can anyone > give me an Idea of how to extend te /var file system? Read the FAQ and the handbook how to disklabel a new harddisk. Boot single user mode # swapon -a # mount -at ufs newfs the partition on the new drive and mount it to /mnt # cd /var # tar cf - . | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvf - ) # umount /var # umount /mnt edit fstab, to mount the new var partition to /var # mount /var look if it's ok.... # reboot __ andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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