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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can /usr be expanded ? I'm almost out of space!
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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Oliver Wilson wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 with the following ufs configuration:
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a       31775    18073    11160    62%    /
> /dev/sd0s2g      7199       40     6584     1%    /home
> /dev/sd0s2f    267679   207522    38743    84%    /usr
> /dev/sd0s2e     29727    18113     9236    66%    /var
> 
> I also have a DOS partition with 200mb free that I'd like FreeBSD to
> use, preferably under /usr. Is it possible to do this, and how should I
> proceed?

You can't directly expand a partition (AFAIK).  You can make a new
partition and move part of your existing /usr heirarchy under it, ie
/usr/home, /usr/local, and so forth, and make symlinks to the new
locations.  

> If not, please suggest alternate ways for FreeBSD to utilize the extra
> 200mb.

You'll have to use FIPS to split that 200mb off into a new slice, then
delete it, make a FreeBSD slice, disklabel, and mount it.  

I will send you the long-way make disk info I have, it details how to
wrangle with fdisk.  I haven't done this personally, so use what you can
and ask if you have questions.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major