Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:31:09 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "Roland Giesler" <roland@thegreentree.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing disk labels Message-ID: <20031125153109.7d9068c9.itetcu@apropo.ro> In-Reply-To: <NFEBLNMJLPMABJMOEINDMEFGCIAA.roland@thegreentree.org> References: <20031125132300.J29742@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <NFEBLNMJLPMABJMOEINDMEFGCIAA.roland@thegreentree.org>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:03:08 +0200 "Roland Giesler" <roland@thegreentree.org> wrote: > Thanks Konrad, > > Yes, you're right, I mean file systems. I've only been using FreeBSD for > bit more than a month, so I'm still getting used to the different > terminology (being used to MS). > > Could I do this process "live", ie. could I FTP the content for "/usr" to > another machine, delete the "/usr" filesystem, grow "/" to let's say 1GB, > recreate "/usr" and copy the data back? If I understand things correctly, > then "/usr" holds apps and other stuff, but not the files essential to > starting and operating FreeBSD. So I should be follow this course of > action? I would suggest using either dump/restore or tar befora ftp-ing. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK and the man pages -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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