Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:41:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: nathan@senate.org (Nathan Dorfman) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Space Message-ID: <199706291841.UAA21578@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <199706291750.NAA16214@limbo.senate.org> from Nathan Dorfman at "Jun 29, 97 01:50:34 pm"
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> The setup I had when I installed this box was two 540MB IDE hard drives, one > had a huge DOS partition plus a 63MB FreeBSD swap partition, the other had a > 540MB FreeBSD swap partition. I am running out of space for FreeBSD; can I > create partitions on the first drive (by deleting DOS) and move /home and > /usr/src and perhaps some other trees there without reinstalling the entire > system? Yes. You can use /stand/sysinstall's post installation menu to fdisk, label and newfs the DOS partition or enter the corresponding commands from the commandline. Reading the FAQ 2.18 ''How can I add my new hard disk..'' is recommended! Wolfgang
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