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Date:      Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:03:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        Brandon Peyton <varian@1bigred.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Change disk size..
Message-ID:  <20010701135943.H28633-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <JDEDKHHOCINPGOEPLBJIMEIBCNAA.varian@1bigred.com>

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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Brandon Peyton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need some help here.  Obviously I've got a problem as I can hardly get
> anything to work now that my / is full.
>
> I cannot afford to reformat as this is runs my mailserver/dns/webserver/etc.
> My issue comes down to how can I create more room in my root directory.  Its
> clear I made a fatal mistake by only allowing 50M.
>
> What I am trying to figure out is how to add capacity to / without loosing
> my files.  I would like to simply reformat and change it which would take a
> matter of minutes but I cannot.  I would like to have at least 500M or a gig
> as my /.
>
> What do you think?  What is the best way to do this without loosing data. (I
> do not want to use any kind of partition magic programs as I have had
> nothing but failure from them).
>
> Thanks
> brandon
>
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    48M    47M  -2.2M   105%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f   5.7G   408M   4.8G     8%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e    19M   3.2M    15M    18%    /var
> procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc

Hi Brandon,

Your best bet would be to figure out what is filling up root. The most
likely culprits are /root or /tmp and

du -h /root
du -h /tmp

will let you know if this is the case or not. If the culprit is /root, get
rid of what you don't need and don't surf, etc. as the superuser. If it's
/tmp, use MFS instead.

AFAIK, Partition Magic will see your FreeBSD partitions but won't let you
resize them.

Dru


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