From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 10:46: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3F637B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA15489; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:53:42 +0200 Message-ID: <3B6ED846.19A3C340@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 19:47:50 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tor Stormwall Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing the size of my / partition References: <3B6ECD36.A64959C7@stormwall.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tor Stormwall wrote: > > Hi! > > If I got this right, FreeBSD has an volume manager, like in HP-UX etc. > And if there are one. How can I take some space from /usr and put some > in my / partition. There is no (full-blown) volume manager yet in FreeBSD. Vinum (see it's manpage) allows you to get almost there. Since the filesystem does not (yet) support size changes, you cannot reallocate disk space. The only alternative at this time is to backup, repartition, restore. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message