From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 06:30:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA28427 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 06:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA28353 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 06:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it) Received: from elec.isei.jrc.it (elec.jrc.it) by mrelay.jrc.it (4.1/EB-950131-C) id AA03161; Wed, 14 Jan 98 15:31:27 +0100 Received: from elect6.jrc.it by elec.isei.jrc.it (4.1/EI-3.0m) id AA16340; Wed, 14 Jan 98 15:29:20 +0100 Posted-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:28:25 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:28:25 +0100 (MET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@elect6.jrc.it Reply-To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik To: Doug White Cc: Gordon Wang , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Reply-Path: Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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.