From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 13:48:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05BA15177 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:48:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA17495; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:48:30 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:48:30 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: outlawtx@bga.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system larger than physical disk In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990927214526.013bc700@bga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 outlawtx@bga.com wrote: > Hi, > > My FreeBSD file system is getting larger than the disk drive. Is there a > way, in FreeBSD, to make the file system span more than one physical disk > drive? Yes. You create a new filesystem on a separate disk, transfer the contents of a subtree (eg: /usr/ports, /home) onto it, and then mount the new filesystem onto your current filesystem tree. Cheers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | Opportunites are seldom labeled --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message