From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 16 21:33:07 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 DD74316A4CE for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 21:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1756A43D31 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 21:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from byx0rm.mr-clevver.com ([154.20.11.99]) by priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.netESMTP <20040517043306.GDDO15602.priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net@byx0rm.mr-clevver.com>; Sun, 16 May 2004 22:33:06 -0600 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:34:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@byx0rm.mr-clevver.com To: Phil Thomson In-Reply-To: <49232.207.6.29.101.1084767451.squirrel@webmail.freeshell.org> Message-ID: <20040516213213.M38128@byx0rm.mr-clevver.com> References: <49232.207.6.29.101.1084767451.squirrel@webmail.freeshell.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with editing partition tables X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 04:33:08 -0000 On Sun, 16 May 2004, Phil Thomson wrote: > 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! Most likely the problem is /root filling up with stuff that shouldn't be there--if you have created a normal user start using that one for your daily activity and clean out all the app-related files and directories in /root. Cheers, Viktor