Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:05:03 -0600 From: Darren <alias2@crotchett.com> To: jesse@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: combining partitions Message-ID: <3FF212AF.1040608@crotchett.com> In-Reply-To: <bssj0n$csa$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <3FF190B7.8030905@usmstudent.com> <200312301058.25742.kstewart@owt.com> <bssj0n$csa$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Thanks all.
I just took the easy way out and copied my distfiles to /hd2 and then
sym linked them back to /usr/ports. See it now :)
scsibox# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 126M 38M 78M 33% /
/dev/da1s1e 2.0G 1.3G 532M 72% /hd2
/dev/da0s1f 252M 3.3M 229M 1% /tmp
/dev/da0s1g 3.2G 1.5G 1.4G 51% /usr
/dev/da0s1e 252M 68M 164M 29% /var
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
Now, I must ask a dumb question. Exactly what are distfiles? I'm not a
noobie to FreeBSD, relatively speaking. It's just that once I set
something up on FreeBSD, it just sits there and works. I rarely have to
muck around too much besides keeping the installed software up to date.
Although, I'm working on moving my win98se printer over to FreeBSD.
So, you may see me post again soon :).
TIA,
backdoc
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
>>On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:50 am, backdoc wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger
>>>partition.
>>>
>>>Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else?
>>>
>>>I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE.
>>>
>>>My partition layout is:
>>>scsibox# df -h
>>>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>>>/dev/da0s1a 126M 39M 77M 33% /
>>>/dev/da1s1e 2.0G 185M 1.7G 10% /hd2
>>>/dev/da0s1f 252M 4.7M 227M 2% /tmp
>>>/dev/da0s1g 3.2G 2.9G 58M 98% /usr
>>>/dev/da0s1e 252M 67M 165M 29% /var
>>>procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
>>>
>>
>>You would probably find it easier to determine what is eating up your disk
>>space and move that to /hd2. For example, my /usr/ports/distfiles runs
>>around 1.5 GB. Just moving distfiles to hd2 and linking it to
>>/usr/ports/distfiles would free up a lot of space. On one machine that I
>>don't use a lot of HD space, I mounted a 10 GB slice as /usr/ports.
>
>
> If you DO want to consolodate those partitions, you'll probably have to
> back them up using dump, delete both partitions, create the consolodated
> large partition, and then restore the backup.
>
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