Date: 03 Jan 2004 12:04:59 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition resizing help!!! PLZ Message-ID: <44u13dt138.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040103165438.82003.qmail@web40702.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040103165438.82003.qmail@web40702.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rogue Spider <rogue_spider@yahoo.com> writes: > when I installed freebsd I tried to resize the /dev > partion bigger and It told me it was not possible even > though I had 5GB of free space it only let me to use > preset partition sizes:( > So know my /dev partiotion is too small. and the OS > is installed with KDE as GUI. and my /dev fills to > compasity and fails every thing that dosna fit into > it. > > Is there a way to resize the partions Now without > having to reinstall from scratch. > You'll have to give more information. /dev is on a devfs on FreeBSD 5.x, which means it doesn't take any real disk space to begin with. On an earlier version, /dev has to be on the root filesystem (and will take up less than 100 kilobytes). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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