Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:29:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey Lynn Jeffries <jeffries@jeffnet.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving Filesystems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909062111460.7508-100000@corvus.jeffnet.net>
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Hello all,
When I installed FreeBSD, I originally allocated 1.5g to /usr and about
6.4g to /home. I don't have as many users as I had originally
anticipated, and /usr is almost full (67 MB free). I want to "resize"
these two filesystems, but don't want to mess up any of the others on the
disc. Will the following work?:
- shut down to single user mode
- perform a level 0 dump of /usr and /home
- use sysinstall's label editor to remove the current filesystems,
create the new ones, and format them using newfs
- restore /usr and /home from dump files
- start back in multi user mode (or should I reboot?)
The concerns I have are:
1. Once I unmount /usr, I will no longer have access to certain binaries
(those in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin). Do I/will I need anything from
there?
2. Dump and restore shouldn't care that the filesystems are now different
sizes (and possibly different names), right?
3. Will disklabel will rewrite /etc/fstab, if necessary?
Is there anything else I need to do? Am I making too big of a deal out of
this?
-Jeff
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