Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 00:51:30 +0000 From: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> To: Matt Smith <ratman6@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr Message-ID: <20061104005130.GA636@gremlin.foo.is> In-Reply-To: <000001c6ff95$dfcd6df0$0201a8c0@bedroom> References: <20061103120052.75B4916A6D5@hub.freebsd.org> <000001c6ff95$dfcd6df0$0201a8c0@bedroom>
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Your only option here as far as I know is to partition the drive to be the new /usr partition. To acheive this you would preferrably put the system into single user mode, create a partition on the new drive and mount it under /mnt for example. Then copy all the data between. I prefer to use dump and pipe it into restore myself as this preserves all the filesystem flags that would get lost if you would just do a cp or tar. Then just update your fstab pointing /usr to the new drive and reboot the machine. Baldur On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:17:33PM -0500, Matt Smith wrote: > Hello all, > I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to > ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best > and safest way to do it? > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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