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Jean Peindray-d'Ambelle wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> can anyone tell me how to do to extend a File System without lost from
> data?
> I have FreeBSD.2.2.2.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards.
> Jean

You can't :-(. What you can do is mount another filesystem below the one
you wish to extend (so that if you filled up /usr, you can make for
example a new filesystem for /usr/local). The other way would be to
backup, relabel, and restore.

Nadav