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 [ tohis should be discussed on questions@ ]

On Tue, 03 May 2005 20:59:42 -0700
Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> wrote:

> 
> I just ghosted an image of my FreeBSD install from an aging harddrive 
> (2GB) and now wish to install it on a new 30G drive.
> When it lands there it will have tons of space and I would particularily 
> like to grow the userland space and probably also /var.

 [ ... ]

The best way to do it:
/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK
else see growfs(8) and questions@ archives.


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