Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:01:44 -0500 From: Derrick Norris <denorris@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can a FreeBSD slice be increased in size? Message-ID: <200111060201.fA621iK84515@visar.norris-net.com>
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I have a machine at work whose main drive runs Windows, and I installed a second hard drive (20GB) for use with FreeBSD (which is now my primary desktop). At the time, I anticipated a need to possibly install Linux on that drive as well, so I allocated only 10GB to the FreeBSD slice, with the other 10GB left unused for a future Linux install. Since then, I have decided that I probably will not install Linux after all, so I was wondering if there is any combination of fdisk and disklabel commands that I can use to add that 10GB of empty space to the existing FreeBSD slice, then use growfs to increase my /usr filesystem to make use of it. Can this be done using commands, or is my only choice a backup/repartition/reinstall/restore scenario? I would make a backup of critical areas anyway before I tried any procedures; I was just trying to avoid a drive wipe if possible. Thanks, Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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