From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 04:36:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B4616A4B3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA51643FAF for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:36:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail23@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8GBagXR006146; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:36:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail23@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8GBaftN006145; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:36:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail23@bzerk.org using -f Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:36:41 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: "Michael A. Alestock" Message-ID: <20030916113641.GA5806@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20030916061250.D70110@bsd.maa-net.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030916061250.D70110@bsd.maa-net.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LABEL (The FreeBSD Disklabel Editor) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ruben de Groot List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:36:16 -0000 On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:19:28AM -0400, Michael A. Alestock typed: > I have an existing FreeBSD v4.7 installation and want to delete a small > filesystem that I had designated for email (/var/mail), and want to freeup > that unused space to the '/usr/home' filesystem. If I use DISKLABEL to > delete '/var/mail', and then re-write '/usr/home' to reflect the added > space (writing the changes to the SAME '/usr/home' partition), will that > erase the '/usr/home' filesystem and all of its user-data contents > from the disk itself??? Using disklabel in itself won't erase any data. Depending on the physical location of the partitions on the disk you can use growfs(8) to enlarge your /usr/home partition. Read the manpage and make backups to be sure! Ruben > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"