From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 19 19:50:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12258 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA12198 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:50:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lfloyd@sonic.net) Received: (qmail 26579 invoked from network); 20 Mar 1998 03:52:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sub.sonic.net) (208.201.224.8) by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 20 Mar 1998 03:52:12 -0000 Received: from sonic.net (d21.pm19.sonic.net [208.201.229.21]) by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07653 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:50:05 -0800 X-envelope-info: Message-ID: <3511E7DB.E8C7FF64@sonic.net> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:51:55 -0800 From: "L. Floyd" Reply-To: lfloyd@sonic.net Organization: MonkeyPuzzle Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition spanning multiple drives References: <3.0.1.32.19980319164854.006985c0@pacificnet.net> <19980320132212.34408@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I got Val's post through the freebsd-newbies listserv group... so isn't this the correct group to post this question to? - Larry Sue Blake wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 08:14:37PM -0600, Val wrote: > > I am having pretty good luck installing freebsd over the net through the > > ftp process, but there is one question thoug that I hope someone will be > > able to answer. > > I had my mail partition overfill (well, almost -- 99%) and I am thinking > > about adding another drive (or drives) in to put in the same partition. > > (/mail). > > So the question is: > > do I have to enter the /sys/standinstall to do this or do I have to use > > the commands of the freebsd manually. If I do it, will the current > > information on the /mail partition be retained or do I need to back it up? > > I guess it's not really a partition, but a volume that I am talking about > > (at least novell would call it a volume) but this is my first unix box so > > far. > > Hi Val. It's nice to see you but we don't answer support questions here. > Send it to FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG and you'll get some help. > Don't forget to come back here when you want to chat! :-) > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > find / -name "*.conf" |more > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message