Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:30:08 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: zoogy@cris.com (Chad Shackley) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re-partition Message-ID: <199602200100.LAA03259@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199602191925.OAA21167@fs1.cris.com> from "Chad Shackley" at Feb 19, 96 11:28:39 am
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Chad Shackley stands accused of saying: > Is there a (good) way to repartition a drive? I currently have a > 6000 MB /var and a 2317 MB /usr. The machine was originally going > to be a news server, but not any more. So I'd like to know if I can > safely reclaim a lot of that 6 GB and make /usr bigger without > losing data from either /var or /usr. Firstly; having /usr that big is silly. You can cut /var up into seperate partitions, but you can't resize /usr. Use 'disklabel -e' to edit the disklabel, and reallocate the area that /var occupied to different partitions. Don't change any of the numbers that relate to any partitions that you're currently using. If you've never done this before, I _Strongly_Recommend_ making a backup of anything you might want to keep. You can (and possibly will) remove both feet at the waist doing this. > Chad -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[
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