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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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Jim O'Gorman
> jameso@elwood.net

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