From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 23:59:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02521 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02506 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA04517; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:58:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Khetan Gajjar cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing root partition In-Reply-To: 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, 10 Aug 1998, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > Hi. > > My root partition is getting pretty full, and I'd like to change > it to another partition. > > I've newfs'd the new partition, and can mount it and > everything. Are there any pointers on how to (easily) > change the root partition from the one physical drive, > logical partition and slice to another ? You have to tell the boot blocks that. I'd suggest creating the new root where you want it then swapping the drives physically. That or symlink off the files on the root partition that are too big. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message