Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:03:20 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: romank@graphnet.com (Roman Katsnelson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New HD Message-ID: <199808051903.PAA22217@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <35C89C71.F833275A@graphnet.com> from Roman Katsnelson at "Aug 5, 98 01:54:58 pm"
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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
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