From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 29 11:25:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 602AC37B401 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22132 invoked by uid 100); 29 Sep 2001 18:25:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15286.4624.732726.385701@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:25:20 -0500 To: "Asep Ruspeni" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD Full In-Reply-To: <29193158@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Asep Ruspeni types: > my question are > - how can i setup a new disk (without interupting any existing data in > previous disk) That's actually pretty simple. Plug in the disk. Reboot and run /stand/sysinstall, and you can then slice, partition and format the new disk. If you just want one big partition, it might be easier to use fdisk and disklabel. See the man pages for those two for details. > - is there anyway to spread distribution of directory to more than 1 > disk slice ? (for example : percents for directory /etc/var has reached > 99%, can it continue to next disks? Vinum should let you do this, but I've not tried it. Read the vinum man page for details. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message