From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 19:47:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A932237B431 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 50935 invoked by uid 100); 7 Aug 2001 02:47:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15215.22219.291340.710290@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:47:39 -0500 To: Tor Stormwall Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing the size of my / partition In-Reply-To: <90498284@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tor Stormwall types: > If I got this right, FreeBSD has an volume manager, like in HP-UX etc. > And if there are one. How can I take some space from /usr and put some > in my / partition. FreeBSD doesn't have a volume manager (having only seen AIX's, I'm *very* happy about that). However, recent versions have "growfs", which will grow a a file system to fill all of a partition if it doesn't feel the complete thing. If you can add space at the end of a partition, you can use growfs to expand the file system. To take space out of a partition, you have to dump it, shrink it, newfs the shorter partition, then restore the dump. So - if /usr follows / with nothing or nothing but swap, you can do what you're asking for. If that seems a bit much, you can find something on / and move it to /usr. /var and /tmp are standard choices to move. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message