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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:36:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Costa <costa@inner.cortx.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hardrive upgrade
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970114163618.9790F-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970114101037.17247A-100000@inner.cortx.com>

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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Costa wrote:

> I am looking to upgrade my hard space.  I have a scsi(2) 1.2 gig right 
> now running freebsd 2.1.  I am getting a 2 gig scsi hd and i am looking 
> to partition both drives so that i get the maximum amount of space for 
> /usr.
> 
> Should i just add the 2 gig and move /usr to it or is there a better way 
> to set it up.  I am also looking to upgrade to fbsd 2.1.6. Please 
> advise on the best approach for my upgrades.

I believe the best way is to just add the drive and move parts of /usr
over to the new disk, ie /home, and symlink those over to the new disk.

We did this on our machine and there's no noticable difference.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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