From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 05:34:27 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 A4BFF16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.8.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B10643F93 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAPDYPG3035181; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:34:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost)hAPDYPlA035178; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:34:25 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:34:24 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Roland Giesler In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031125142637.E29742@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Resizing disk labels X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:34:27 -0000 On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Roland Giesler wrote: > 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? It is not possible since you need to destroy the binaries you need for restore. But you can boot from the first installation CD, select fixit mode from sysinstall and insert the second installation CD as a fixit CD. Since the latter one contains a live filesystem all the binaries you need are on the CD. You just need to mount the hard disk partitions (look into your /etc/fstab file) to do the work. By the way, you asked in a separate mail whether it is possible for a file system to be 108% full. It is, since there are (by default) 10% of file system space reserved for (important!) purposes of file system optimization. Only root's processes are allowed to use this space, and programs like df or KDE don't include the reserved space in their output concerning free space. Thus 100% in the output of df are 90% in real. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany