Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:51:27 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with rezise freebsd slice Message-ID: <20031212185127.59360341.itetcu@apropo.ro> In-Reply-To: <20031212155752.60600.qmail@web40103.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031212155752.60600.qmail@web40103.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:57:52 -0800 (PST) Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. This can be done easly. > Move the /usr directory to that partition and then > reinstall freebsd 4.9!! fat32 does not support the rwx and flags attributes of a unix filesysyem among other things, so I sugest to do a tar archive of usr (eventualy compressed with gzip/bzip2) end restore from there. > 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). If you fallow the tar path, *it might* work, but I think you will get I a lot of trubles due to the differeces betweend 4.8 and 4.8; trubles like not booting or panics to app not working right dumping core, 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 If you have space on the disk why don't you make a slice on andsymlink a part of usr (ex.: you home) to the new slice ? > Look at my disk : > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s3a 984M 132M 774M 15% / root is way to big, about typicaly 100M should be enough and to be sure go till 250, but momre is a waste of space. You do have a symlink for tmp to /var/tmp or something ? > /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 -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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