Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:18:38 PST From: "Marc Bradshaw" <nakker@hotmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing /usr size Message-ID: <19981111191838.22923.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Roman Katsnelson suggested -->> > Why not just make a new fs (i.e. /usr2)? > I think there IS a way to actually add the space to /usr, but it > would be more complicated, and I think you'd have to newfs the whole > space which would mean losing all the data currently on the slice. > >Hth, >Roman. Hmmm, thanks for the tip, but... I did think of this, maybe putting /usr/local on the new slice, but I could see perhaps a few probs in the future. Thinking on, what if I backed up my whole /usr to a machine with a big disk on the local net and deleted my /usr. Would I be able to boot into single user mode, recreate /usr with a partition editor to include the new space and then recover everything from the backup machine over nfs ? Is there enough stuff available on / to make a network connection and do the recovery ? >Marc Bradshaw wrote: >> >> I installled FreeBSD 2.2.5 and W95% on a 2Gb disk, and gave FreeBSD >> 1.2Gb and Windows 0.8Gb. What was I thinking of ???. /usr is >> getting full and I want rid of Windows so I can have it all for >> FreeBSD. Now, can turn over the windows partition to FreeBSD >> easily enough, but how can I (or can I ?) use the free space to >> expand /usr?. >> Help much appreciated... >> >> Tad Bradshaw >-- >Roman Katsnelson <-> romank@graphnet.com >UNIX Engineer <-> rk.graphnet.com >Graphnet, Inc. <-> www.graphnet.com Cheers...Tad ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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