Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:19:54 -1000 From: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com To: Nicholas Basila <mlists@northglobe.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr out of space Message-ID: <be3f93be8c11.be8c11be3f93@socal.rr.com>
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Aloha Nicholas Thanks for responding. I had just received a hint about growfs and while reading that I found out about newfs. I have indeed performed the newfs and can now mount /dev/da1s4f. Would it be possible to use growfs to add the new slice to /usr? If not, I will follow your instructions in this email. Thanks again. Robert > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:17 pm, hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > > > > When I tried using bsdlabel without any options I got an error. > > So I then did a "bsdlabel -w da1s4" and the a "bsdlabel -e da1s4" > > and edited what I believe are the correct numbers for this slice. > > Now when I do the "bsdlabel da1s4" with no options, I get > > > > # /dev/da1s4: > > 8 partitions: > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > c: 8980335 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" > part,> don't edit f: 8980319 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > > > > > I still get the above error when trying to mount this slice. > > > > To sum it up. > > > > Is it possible to mount, copy and change the /usr partition? > > > > If so, how do I correct the super block problem so I can mount? > > > > Or, is there a much easier way and I have been spinning my wheels > for> the last 6 hours? > > Perhaps I've missed a step, but it seems that you never did a > newfs / > dev/da1s4f. If not, that would be an obvious explanation for the > incorrect super block error. > At any rate, it is pretty easy to copy data from usr to a new > slice and > change fstab. I do it on occasion. I would recommend making a copy > of > fstab that has the da1s4f as the /usr partition. > I do a tunefs -n enable on the new filesystem device. Then, I boot > into > single user mode, mount -ro /usr and mount -rw /newusr (and I even > mount /var if I need to do editing with vi.) I then tar or copy the > files over (dump works, too). After all that's done, umount /usr > and > umount /newusr. Copy the new version of fstab to /etc/fstab, and > try a > mount /usr or mount -a. If there are no errors, you should be able > to > hit control-d and finish the boot procedure. > > > Nicholas > > > > > > TIA > > > > Robert > > > > P.S. Here's what bsdlabel on da1s2 looks like; > > > > bsd-desktop# bsdlabel da1s2 >
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