Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:07:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: chia an <alan_qc@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help me please?????? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111051506520.17249-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111040535290.63717-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, f.johan.beisser wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, chia an wrote: > > > i want to move 500MB from root partition to /usr, i > > dont know how, any ideas, please help me? > > sure, either you use growfs(8), or rebuild the machine. > > i would suggest adding a disk, and moving /usr on to it, since that's > easier than dealing with growfs. growfs can't shrink partitions; so taking 500MB off an existing root slice is not possible without jinking around with backups & restores or spare drives. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk ...You're visualising the _duck_ taped over my _mouth_..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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