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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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