Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:17:08 +0000 From: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: growfs how-to? Message-ID: <1060193827.95208.15.camel@borges>
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[please cc: me in replies as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thank you.] Hello, My old 20G drive in my 5.1-RELEASE box started to die last week, so I got a new drive (a 40G Seagate) and used Norton Ghost to copy over everything from the old drive to the new drive. At the moment, FreeBSD still thinks I've only got a 20G drive and I have 20 Gigs of unused space. I was thinking of using growfs in order to grow my /usr partition to fill the rest of the drive. I've read the man pages for growfs, bsdlabel and fdisk but I'm a bit confused about how I should go about using these tools to do what I want as I've never really used them before except on a new installation. So here are my questions: how safe is it to use growfs for this purpose? Can anyone provide or does anyone know of a good step-by-step tutorial for this sort of thing? I searched around on the web but couldn't find anything useful. TIA, Scott
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