Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Scott M. DePalma" <sdepalma@sirus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filespace allocation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407111410.26547X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980406163208.006bbac8@sirus.com>
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Scott M. DePalma wrote: > I have installed fbsd 2.2.5 from floppies on my old 386. The master drive is > 200 MB with a small DOS partition and the rest partitioned for fbsd. The > second drive is 540 MB with a single fbsd partition. Ok. > In allocating space on the small drive, I used the automatic setting so that > the system established the size of /, /var and swap. The rest (89 MB) was > assigned to /usr. But as such I can't assign /usr to the larger drive. Or, > if I do, the smaller drive is left with 89 MB of unused space. The install program doesn't support splitting the partitions across disks. Your best bet here is to move /usr to the new disk then modify /etc/fstab to mount the second disk as /usr after installing. You also might install without a separate /var partition since the auto config will give you a pretty puny one. Reallocate the space to / instead. On my 500MB disk I just used the Greg Lehey-patented `monolithic filesystem' method -- some swap and one giant root. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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