Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:28:25 +0100 (MET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it> To: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> Cc: Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980114151025.8962W-100000@elect6.jrc.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112214601.22079L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Gordon Wang wrote: > > > Dear Sir > > I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user. > > My /root space is 32M. > > What should I do if I want to make 1t 64M. > > This is not as easy as it sounds. You can't resize a partition without > destroying it. You have to back up the system, rewrite the disklabel, > newfs the new partitions, then restore the data to the new partitions. > Basically, reformat the disk. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Alternatively; you can check what it is that requires size; if it is for example just the '/root' home directory of the 'root' user; you could just move it to /usr/home and modify the /etc/passd file. Dw.
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