Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:34:01 -0500 From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> To: fhanik@pakana.com Cc: "'Jim'" <jameso@elwood.net>, "'Derrick Yu'" <dyu@cdknet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To enlarge a partition.... Message-ID: <39F87919.2EF8B16F@planetwe.com> References: <001b01c03f7a$880bf960$ef97c93f@pakana.com>
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Particularly, doing this is /usr/local and /usr/home can be quite helpful. Filip Hanik wrote: > > You could kind of trick it. > move the largest (one or more) sub-directory on the /usr partition to the > new drive > then simple mount /usr/large-directory to the new drive. > > that will at least work temporarily. > > Filip > > Filip Hanik > Technical Architect > Pakana Corporation > fhanik@pakana.com > 415-371 9200 ext 3529 > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jim > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 11:20 AM > To: Derrick Yu > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: To enlarge a partition.... > > You can't grow UFS filesystems on FreeBSD. You might want to look at > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/wishlist.html. It has the best info that > I have seen about the topic. > > Snipped it reads: > > --- > > Expandable file systems > > An expandable volume isn't much use if the file system on it > doesn't know about the additional space. Many people ask for > expandable ufs. This isn't really a Vinum issue, but Vinum makes it > interesting. > > Status: Some people are working on it. At the moment, there's > nothing useful to show. > > --- > > I would say add a bigger drive or use Vinum to concat/raid/stripe a > couple smaller ones together. That is what I do and it works great. > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:02:55PM -0400, Derrick Yu wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Can someone list me the steps of how to enlarge my /usr/ partition by > adding > > a new drive? or is it possible to do that? > > Thanks guys, > > > > Derrick Yu > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Jim O'Gorman > jameso@elwood.net -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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