From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 20: 4:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7400337B41A for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:04:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9307 invoked by uid 100); 2 Apr 2002 04:04:23 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15529.11718.598006.915779@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:04:22 -0600 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Steve Bertrand , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extend /usr... In-Reply-To: <20020402132012.E29214@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CA926A8.2090804@northnetworks.ca> <20020402132012.E29214@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.50 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20020402132012.E29214@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg 'groggy' Lehey typed: > On Monday, 1 April 2002 at 22:34:00 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > HI there, > > I just put a new disk in my BSD computer, and want to know if it is > > possible to extend or even clone my /usr partition to this new disk. I > > have completely run out of space on my current /usr partition. > Probably not without a lot of work. But if the space on the new disk > is sufficient, you can create a new file system there, copy all the > data from /usr to it, modify /etc/fstab to point to the new partition, > and reboot. If anything goes wrong, you can fix the /etc/fstab and > return to the old partition. Detailed instructions for moving your system - or parts of it - are in the FAQ, at http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message