Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 02:34:58 -0400 From: Nicholas Basila <mlists@northglobe.com> To: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr out of space Message-ID: <200405200234.58022.mlists@northglobe.com> In-Reply-To: <be3f93be8c11.be8c11be3f93@socal.rr.com> References: <be3f93be8c11.be8c11be3f93@socal.rr.com>
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:19 am, hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > Aloha Nicholas > Thanks for responding. I had just received a hint > about growfs and while reading that I found out > about newfs. I have indeed performed the newfs and > can now mount /dev/da1s4f. > Would it be possible to use growfs to add the new > slice to /usr? It is possible to use growfs, but in your case - more complicated, as you have /usr and the new /usr in two different slices. You'd have to resize the slice with fdisk, then use disklabel and growfs. > If not, I will follow your instructions in this > email. > Thanks again. > Robert > > > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:17 pm, hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > > > When I tried using bsdlabel without any options I got an error. > > > So I then did a "bsdlabel -w da1s4" and the a "bsdlabel -e da1s4" > > > and edited what I believe are the correct numbers for this slice. > > > Now when I do the "bsdlabel da1s4" with no options, I get > > > > > > # /dev/da1s4: > > > 8 partitions: > > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > > c: 8980335 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" > > > > part,> don't edit f: 8980319 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 > > 28552 > > > > > I still get the above error when trying to mount this slice. > > > > > > To sum it up. > > > > > > Is it possible to mount, copy and change the /usr partition? > > > > > > If so, how do I correct the super block problem so I can mount? > > > > > > Or, is there a much easier way and I have been spinning my wheels > > > > for> the last 6 hours? > > > > Perhaps I've missed a step, but it seems that you never did a > > newfs / > > dev/da1s4f. If not, that would be an obvious explanation for the > > incorrect super block error. > > At any rate, it is pretty easy to copy data from usr to a new > > slice and > > change fstab. I do it on occasion. I would recommend making a copy > > of > > fstab that has the da1s4f as the /usr partition. > > I do a tunefs -n enable on the new filesystem device. Then, I boot > > into > > single user mode, mount -ro /usr and mount -rw /newusr (and I even > > mount /var if I need to do editing with vi.) I then tar or copy the > > files over (dump works, too). After all that's done, umount /usr > > and > > umount /newusr. Copy the new version of fstab to /etc/fstab, and > > try a > > mount /usr or mount -a. If there are no errors, you should be able > > to > > hit control-d and finish the boot procedure. > > > > > > Nicholas > > > > > TIA > > > > > > Robert > > > > > > P.S. Here's what bsdlabel on da1s2 looks like; > > > > > > bsd-desktop# bsdlabel da1s2
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