Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:41:07 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: platanthera <platanthera@web.de> Cc: philthom@freeshell.org Subject: Re: Help with editing partition tables Message-ID: <20040517124107.GA67071@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <200405171321.44527.platanthera@web.de> References: <49232.207.6.29.101.1084767451.squirrel@webmail.freeshell.org> <200405171321.44527.platanthera@web.de>
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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: > On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user > > to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on > > an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet > > been mounted). The system is installed on the 3 GB drive, but my > > current partition table is inadequate to my needs. Here is the output > > of df -H: > > > > /dev/ad0s1a 260M 254M -15.3M 106% / > > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > > /dev/ad0s1f 3.4G 1.6G 1.6G 51% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 260M 14M 225M 6% /var > > hi Phil, > you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and > eventually another one for /home too. > If you decide to reinstall (which is the easiest approach if there's > 'not much too lose yet' on your system) just hit 'a' in the disklabel > editor of sysinstall(8). This will create separate slices for /, > swap, /var, /tmp and /usr, and will result in a reasonable disk layout > for a desktop system. > If you do not want to reinstall and have free space left on your other > hard disk, you can create a bsd partition there and one or more slices > inside this partition (250M should be enough for /tmp under 'normal' > circumstances). Then you can mount the new file systems under arbitrary > mount points, move the content of /tmp (and eventually /usr/home) over > and adjust /etc/fstab. Feel free to check back with the list if you > want to go this way and need more detailed advice. When you say partition, you really mean slice and vice-versa. Ruben
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