Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 01:47:51 -0500 (EST) From: borehawg <bangpath@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: moving filesystems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903080123280.248-100000@kagero.gw.total-web.net>
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I recently started to become a little low on space in my /usr partition, so I deleted a partition off my windows drive (I have two SCSI drives) so I could break off /home to a separate partition and expand /usr a bit. My current setup is like this: (FreeBSD 3.1) /dev/da0s1a / /dev/da0s1b swap /dev/da0s1e /var /dev/da0s1f /usr <-- prolly will become /home /dev/da1s1 /worthless <-- Win95 partition /dev/da1s2a empty space <-- soon to be new /usr /dev/da2s1 /jaz (when mounted) /dev/da0 is a 1 GB drive /dev/da1 is a 2 GB drive with two 1 GB partitions (or slices now) My question: Do I use the dd command to move an entire partition across or is there another command better suited for something like this? If I use the dd command to move /usr from /dev/da1s2, would it be something like "dd /dev/da0s1f /dev/da1s2a" or do I need to use "dd if=/dev/da0s1f of=/dev/da1s2a" or something else? I assume I would need to boot into single-user mode and edit /etc/fstab to mount everything properly after moving things around. Can I move the partitions in multi-user mode, or do I need to do it in single-user mode to begin with? What other pitfalls do I need to be aware of before beginning this process? I would prefer to do this without losing any data and/or having to completly fdisk everything from scratch (and yes, I have definately backed up all the important stuff! :-) Or....any FAQs/Tutorials or other reference materials that I should read? BTW, since I am not subscribed to the list, please either reply directly or Cc: offlist. Thanks. --------------------------------------------- andrew ------> bangpath@bellsouth.net --------------------------------------------- C++? Java?? Perl??? To Hell with it all!!! AppleSoft Basic all the way! Dude! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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