From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 18:44:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A01837B709 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:44:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA14430; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:44:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:44:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: James Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition resize Message-ID: <20000722204425.B13117@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "James Johnson" on Sat Jul 22 07:09:34 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 22), James Johnson said: > Hi. > Is there a way to resize partitions without losing data? I > would like to take about 50MB from /usr and apply to to /. Is this > possible? Sorry; there isn't anything that will resize ffs filesystems. The quick solution until you can backup, repartition and retore, is to make symlinks from / into /usr. For example, symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp. Don't do this for /boot, /modules, /etc, /bin or /sbin though :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message