Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:04:22 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018152263.70a815@mired.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Steve Bertrand <steve@northnetworks.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extend /usr... Message-ID: <15529.11718.598006.915779@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020402132012.E29214@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CA926A8.2090804@northnetworks.ca> <20020402132012.E29214@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In <20020402132012.E29214@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> 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 <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK > <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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