From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 07:57:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FAF16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from web40103.mail.yahoo.com (web40103.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38F2843D31 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dino_vliet@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031212155752.60600.qmail@web40103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [130.37.24.11] by web40103.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:57:52 PST Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:57:52 -0800 (PST) From: Dino Vliet To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: help with rezise freebsd slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:57:53 -0000 Hi there, I’m running FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop together with win98 and I am pleased with the OS as from day 1. However, I ran out of disk space when installing gnucash. Because my FreeBSD slice is not too big, I resized my win98 partition and now I have 1.5 GB before the FreeBSD slice free available. I wanted to make FreeBSD resize a partition “on the fly” but after looking at some Internet pages I found, it seems that won’t work. So now, I came up with this marvelous idea, to mount my win98 partition in freebsd. Move the /usr directory to that partition and then reinstall freebsd 4.9!! After that I want to get rid of the /usr directory of the 4.9 installation and restore the original 4.8 (which would then be on my windows partition) directory on it. In that way I don’t have to reinstall my applications (postgresql, R, diablo-jdk and weak etc). This sounds too good to be true and does anyone know if this will work? What are the drawbacks? Can I do something else to resize my /usr directory ? I only want to resize my FreeBSD slice and make the /usr directory bigger. Any help or comments on this issue is welcome because I have to do something Look at my disk : Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 984M 132M 774M 15% / /dev/ad0s4e 1.8G 1.6G 47M 97% /usr /dev/ad0s3e 441M 5.1M 401M 1% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc Brgds Robert __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/