From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 12:24:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09826 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09816 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22217; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:03:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199808051903.PAA22217@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: New HD In-Reply-To: <35C89C71.F833275A@graphnet.com> from Roman Katsnelson at "Aug 5, 98 01:54:58 pm" To: romank@graphnet.com (Roman Katsnelson) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Hello, > > I currently have one partitioned hard drive on the system. I am about to > add another one. What I would like to do is add all of it to /usr > without losing any of the data already in that partition. Is this > possible? Ah, nevermind -- I _know_ it's possible (this is FreeBSD > afterall), let me rephrase it: Can someone point to the location in the > book or the handbook dealing with this? > Do you want to move /usr to the new drive? Or expect /usr to get bigger by "magic"? I think there are two ways to do the magic: mount_union (man mount_union), which will leave existing /usr visible, but put new files on the partition on the 2nd disk (eg /dev/sd1s1e or whatever). use ccd. See man ccd and man ccdconfig on that. I've never tried it. Hmm, I, too, have a spare disk... I think ccd will require you to whack the existing /usr partition, though. (equivalent of newfs'ing it.) Both union and ccd require kernel support. Then there's "vinum", which I hope Greg L. will talk about. Since I know nothing about it, I'll shut up. Dave -- Bedford County, PA -- 47,000 polite, friendly Appalachians, 4,000 of whom have concealed-carry permits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message