Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:00:54 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Brandon Peyton <varian@1bigred.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change disk size.. Message-ID: <20010701210054.A97322@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <JDEDKHHOCINPGOEPLBJIMEIBCNAA.varian@1bigred.com> References: <JDEDKHHOCINPGOEPLBJIMEIBCNAA.varian@1bigred.com>
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:39:08PM +1000, 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. > 50M should be enough. You should try to find out what is using all that space. Then move some of it to /usr and make a symlink to it. > 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 /. I am afraid it is not possible to change the size of a filesystem without repartitioning the disk. > > 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). > AFAIK there is no partition magic type of program that can handle resizing of FFS partisions anyway. > 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 > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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