Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:25:08 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Changing partitions or slices Message-ID: <385D14F4.1CE3CD91@twave.net>
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I have been using FreeBSD now for about a month, my first experience with a Unixish system in 25 years. When I installed, I used the defaults for the slice sizes of my file system. My problem is, the / directory keeps filling up, so now I would like to change the size of the slices. My questions are as follow: Is it possible to make a backup of the system, change the slices, then do a restore to the original system state? If so, what would be the procedure? In my reading, (Boy, learning all this new stuff can give an old man a headache!), I have come away with the impression that the procedure would involve doing a dump, disklabel, newfs, then restore. Is this the acceptable method? If not, is there a better one? Thanking all of you in advance, Walter Brameld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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