From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 18:12:58 2000 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 EBCE237B424 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA97982; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:42:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:42:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: K H Tan Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Re-partioning hard disk Message-ID: <20000827104234.A90379@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39A5FA47.B5620A41@pop.jaring.my> <20000825143009.N39208@wantadilla.lemis.com> <39A60617.B573A1B7@pop.jaring.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39A60617.B573A1B7@pop.jaring.my>; from netline@pop.jaring.my on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:37:27PM +0800 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, 25 August 2000 at 13:37:27 +0800, K H Tan wrote: > Thank you for your quick reply. > > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> There are ways, but it might be easier just to reinstall. > > Reinstall would take too long. As I said, there are ways. But they could take even longer. > I have 7 servers and the time it took to newfs a 72GB h/d on one > machine is about an hour. Besides, I have already configure DNS etc > etc, That's OK, you don't need to replace that. > What are the other options, I would like to hear them. Is there a > Partition Magic equivalent for FreeBSD? There's nothing which changes partition sizes except disklabel. > Incidently, is there a defrag tool for FreeBSD? No, it's seldom needed. >>> How do I go about making the NICs redundant - in case one fails, the >>> other takes over? >> >> We don't have any mechanism for that at the moment. > > So, I can't have two NICs on a same IP address for load balancing? No. > To add in an extra card, we have to edit rc.conf right? Well, that's part of it. The real answer is that you use ifconfig(8). > Do I have to rebuild the kernel? That depends on the cards you're using. Normally you don't need to. > How about if I want the second card on standby but not activated? That's OK. > Can I have the same IP as the one that's activated? If it's not activated, it doesn't have an IP address. I suppose you could put it there with an IP address, then stop it, but I don't see any advantage to that. In any case, Ethernet card failures are pretty rare. You'd be a lot better off thinking about disk failures. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. 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