From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:36:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00778 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06847 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:33:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA22531; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:51:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:51:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gordon Wang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <34B63559.60C4@tpts5.seed.net.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Gordon Wang wrote: > Dear Sir > I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user. > My /root space is 32M. > What should I do if I want to make 1t 64M. This is not as easy as it sounds. You can't resize a partition without destroying it. You have to back up the system, rewrite the disklabel, newfs the new partitions, then restore the data to the new partitions. Basically, reformat the disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major