From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 16 21:17:33 2004 Return-Path: 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 A2D1916A4CE for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 21:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (ol.freeshell.org [192.94.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE10743D1F for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 21:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philthom@freeshell.org) Received: from webmail.freeshell.org (IDENT:nobody@vinland.freeshell.org [192.94.73.6]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i4H4HVtq024071 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 04:17:31 GMT Received: from 207.6.29.101 (proxying for 207.6.29.101) (SquirrelMail authenticated user philthom) by webmail.freeshell.org with HTTP; Sun, 16 May 2004 21:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49232.207.6.29.101.1084767451.squirrel@webmail.freeshell.org> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:17:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Phil Thomson" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Help with editing partition tables X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: philthom@freeshell.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 04:17:33 -0000 Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is installed on the 3 GB drive, but my current partition table is inadequate to my needs. Here is the output of df -H: /dev/ad0s1a 260M 254M -15.3M 106% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1f 3.4G 1.6G 1.6G 51% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 260M 14M 225M 6% /var As you can see /dev/ad0s1a is dangerously full, and I hadn't finished installing applications yet (it got this full as I was compiling/installing Pine). Is there a way to change the partition table to allocate more space to /dev/ad0s1a? Sounds like a job for fdisk, but "man fdisk" leave me none the wiser on how to proceed with this. I've checked the online handbook too. Can anyone point me to a guide on this process or give me some pointers? TIA! Phil =========== Phil Thomson home: http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson/ label: http://www.centibel.org/ ===========