From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 11:17:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05568 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05561 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26697; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Scott M. DePalma" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filespace allocation In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980406163208.006bbac8@sirus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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