From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 05:58:03 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 DEB8D16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 05:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp07.web.de [217.72.192.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE8C43D49 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 05:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from platanthera@web.de) Received: from [217.225.242.169] (helo=liza.hacienda.herti) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (WEB.DE 4.101 #91) id 1BPhgq-00009p-00; Mon, 17 May 2004 14:57:56 +0200 From: platanthera To: Ruben de Groot Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:57:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <49232.207.6.29.101.1084767451.squirrel@webmail.freeshell.org> <200405171321.44527.platanthera@web.de> <20040517124107.GA67071@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040517124107.GA67071@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405171457.47920.platanthera@web.de> Sender: platanthera@web.de cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: philthom@freeshell.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 12:58:04 -0000 On Monday 17 May 2004 14:41, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: > > On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, 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 > > > > hi Phil, > > you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp > > and eventually another one for /home too. > > If you decide to reinstall (which is the easiest approach if > > there's 'not much too lose yet' on your system) just hit 'a' in the > > disklabel editor of sysinstall(8). This will create separate slices > > for /, swap, /var, /tmp and /usr, and will result in a reasonable > > disk layout for a desktop system. > > If you do not want to reinstall and have free space left on your > > other hard disk, you can create a bsd partition there and one or > > more slices inside this partition (250M should be enough for /tmp > > under 'normal' circumstances). Then you can mount the new file > > systems under arbitrary mount points, move the content of /tmp (and > > eventually /usr/home) over and adjust /etc/fstab. Feel free to > > check back with the list if you want to go this way and need more > > detailed advice. > > When you say partition, you really mean slice and vice-versa. > > Ruben oops.. thanks for the correction. maybe I should stop flirting with Linux .-)