Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:54:25 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: "Gerald A.Speak" <gaspeak@va.prestige.net> Cc: Justin Stanford <jus@security.za.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrading HDD space on existing installation.. ideas? Message-ID: <20010925163701.S802-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <20010925130755.7D03437B419@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi, the idea would be to 1) build in a second harddisk (ad1) and create your (future /usr) partition, let us say ad1s1a (with as many GBs as you like) 2) mount in somewhere on your existing system, let us say on /new 3) copy the old /usr - partition onto /new 4) test your copy by doing # umount /new # mount /dev/ad1s1a /usr Your old /usr-partition will not be deleted - just invisible. 5) When your applications from /usr still work change /etc/fstab : enter /dev/ad1s1a for /usr 6) reboot and pray! The problematic step is 3): you cannot just use # cp -r * because links will not be reproduced correctly. You will have to use pax or tar . About the use of pax you will find a small note in a freebsd-documentation called formatting media (use freebsd-search). Perhaps someone knows something about the use of tar. Good Luck! > On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:22 am, Justin Stanford wrote: > > My current workstation is running FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE, and resides on a > > 10.2gb HDD. > > > > It looks like this: > > > > /dev/ad0s2a 48M 35M 9.2M 79% / > > /dev/ad0s2f 6.8G 5.8G 537M 92% /usr > > /dev/ad0s2e 19M 15M 2.5M 86% /var > > > > ad0s1 is the first partition on the drive, which contains Win98se. > > > > Now, as you can see, /usr is running out of space quite fast.. during > > today's general worktime I hit -68.5M and realised that I am in need of an > > HDD upgrade for some more space. > > > > Now, the problem presents itself in that, I have been using this > > workstation since 4.0-RELEASE (and have been tracking 4.x-STABLE via > > cvsup), and it is nothing trivial for me to just reinstall a fresh FreeBSD > > and start over -- my machine has years of configuration, software > > installation, etc, behind it, so I need to find some way to move to a new, > > bigger HDD, while still exactly preserving my system.. not just /usr, > > everything, like /etc, /var/, and so on. > > > > Various suggestions have been made, but I'm not sure what the best route > > is to follow.. any suggestions, anyone? > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > Justin > > > > PS: Kindly CC me any answers as I am not subscribed to the questions > > list. If this question is not suitable for this list, kindly forward it to > > the appropriate one. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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