From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 11:35: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1C837B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma015582; Thu, 26 Oct 00 13:34:26 -0500 Message-ID: <39F87908.DCC01D8A@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:33:44 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dyu@cdknet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To enlarge a partition.... References: <000d01c03f76$f7cdbbc0$1900a8c0@glass> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm actually preparing to do this exact thing. my /usr is full also i've bought a new drive. gonna put it in, and create a new slice and mount as /usr_new then, just copy (using technique of your choice) /usr to /usr_new then, you can simply edit /etc/fstab and swap /usr_new for /usr then reboot (or you can do the switch manually and not have to reboot) that's it i've done it before and its the most straightforward/painless procedure to "resize" full slices (for me at least) good luck! nathan 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message