Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:09:45 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: paul@nation-net.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing a FIPSed partition Message-ID: <199606191909.TAA27599@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <31C7D4B6.7AAA@nation-net.com> (message from Paul Walsh on Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:21:42 %2B0100)
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> I've got freeBSD running in a partition created by FIPS. Is it possible > to increase its size Not without backing up and re-installing... > and then either create additional file systems in > freeBSD or increase the size of /usr etc ? > > (without reinstalling !) ...but you could create another partition and mount, say, /usr/src or /usr/local on it. eg if you have a 1GB IDE disk with a 430MB DOS partition you no longer want <g> and a 570MB FreeBSD partition which is getting rather tight, you could use get rid of the DOS partition, put a FreeBSD partition where it used to be, move all your files from /usr/local onto it and add a line to /etc/fstab like /dev/wd0s1 /usr/local ufs rw 1 2 and you now have 430MB of extra space in /usr! (Warning:- the fstab entry is very dependent on what kind of disk you have and what partitions are on it. Don't copy the one above blindly). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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