From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 11 04:08:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEF116A4CF for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:08:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from serv01.divms.uiowa.edu (serv01.divms.uiowa.edu [128.255.44.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3381943D2D for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:08:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason-dusek@uiowa.edu) Received: from [128.255.35.93] ([128.255.35.93]) by serv01.divms.uiowa.edu with id i6B48aRx027371 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:08:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <40F0BDAD.2090507@uiowa.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:10:21 -0500 From: Jason Dusek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040706 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.9 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 Subject: reinstall world X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:08:41 -0000 Hi, I gave my entire laptop's hard drive to FreeBSD, but I am beginning to have second thoughts - a lot of my devices don't work. I think I might try dual booting FreeBSD and, say, Gentoo. So this will probably work, because I'm only using a small portion of the disk at present: 17 root # df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 247 123 104 54% / devfs 0 0 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1g 8931 0 8216 0% /home /dev/ad0s1e 989 0 910 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 24790 3621 19186 16% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 989 37 872 4% /var What is a good way to make space on my disk? If I just repartition /usr and /home, I'll probably screw them up. So if I tar up each of the partitions, and maybe etc and some other junk as well, and then: 1. Reformat and reinstall. Put on Gentoo and BSD. 2. Go into the BSD slice and nuke everything, then unpack my tarballs. do I have a good chance of everything working right? - Jason