From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 5 18: 1:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from visar.norris-net.com (adsl-156-80-93.asm.bellsouth.net [66.156.80.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0CB37B416 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 18:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from derrick@localhost) by visar.norris-net.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA621iK84515 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:01:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from derrick) Message-Id: <200111060201.fA621iK84515@visar.norris-net.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Derrick Norris Reply-To: denorris@bellsouth.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can a FreeBSD slice be increased in size? Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:01:44 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 I have a machine at work whose main drive runs Windows, and I installed a second hard drive (20GB) for use with FreeBSD (which is now my primary desktop). At the time, I anticipated a need to possibly install Linux on that drive as well, so I allocated only 10GB to the FreeBSD slice, with the other 10GB left unused for a future Linux install. Since then, I have decided that I probably will not install Linux after all, so I was wondering if there is any combination of fdisk and disklabel commands that I can use to add that 10GB of empty space to the existing FreeBSD slice, then use growfs to increase my /usr filesystem to make use of it. Can this be done using commands, or is my only choice a backup/repartition/reinstall/restore scenario? I would make a backup of critical areas anyway before I tried any procedures; I was just trying to avoid a drive wipe if possible. Thanks, Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message