From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 9:24:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2007D15038 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 09:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.58] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ja462861 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:23:49 -0500 Message-ID: <385D14F4.1CE3CD91@twave.net> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:25:08 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Changing partitions or slices Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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