From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 13:40:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18302 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 13:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA17617 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 13:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA27599; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:09:45 GMT Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:09:45 GMT Message-Id: <199606191909.TAA27599@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: paul@nation-net.com CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <31C7D4B6.7AAA@nation-net.com> (message from Paul Walsh on Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:21:42 +0100) Subject: Re: Increasing a FIPSed partition Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 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