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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).

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