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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:55:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        William Blair Wagner <blairwag1965@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: extending the /usr filesystem - HELP!
Message-ID:  <20020731135401.S64045-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020731204614.47546.qmail@web20809.mail.yahoo.com>

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You might also read the manpage for disklabel... it can be done, but
before you do it, why nost just symlink the following:

/usr/ports -> /usr3/ports
/usr/src -> /usr3/src
/usr/obj -> /usr3/obj

and let it go at that.  And if that's not enough you could symlink
/usr/local -> /usr4/local.

This would be a *lot* simpler and you wouldn't have to worry about
trashing something by accident.

-philip

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, William Blair Wagner wrote:

> Hey Gang,
>
> Somewhat new to FreeBSD - I've found myself building
> and installing many of the ports that I never thought
> I'd install. so far, so good. However, I made the
> /usr(/dev/ad2s1g) filesystem only 3GB. Now, I'm not
> yet out of space, but seeing as I really like having
> all this source code to peruse, I'd really like to
> keep it all, and get more.
>
> I also created a large 10GB file system and another
> 4GB file system, called /usr3(/dev/ad2s1h) and
> /usr4(/dev/ad2s1d) respecively. I'd like to blow away
> /usr3 and/usr4, then give about 6GB of space (now
> freed up) to /usr, and create one final large
> partition/slice and mount it on /usr3. The good news
> is that the whole disk is dedicated to FreeBSD, and
> /usr4 is the last (center slice) on the disk. /usr3 is
> the next to the last slice on the disk, and /usr is
> next to /usr3.
>
> Ive been all over the handbook, along with other
> documents and articles. I can see to run
> /stand/sysinstall to do the fdisk and label editor
> work. But, I'd really like to know that I'm doing this
> right. I figured I'd delete the 2 slices at the end,
> and give 6 more GB to /usr, and set the rest as one
> large slice. Once done, how do I extend the /usr
> filesystem without losing its contents.
>
> I'm not usbscribed to this mailing list - so please
> reply directly to me as well as the list, with useful
> suggestions.
>
> TIA - you *ARE* the best!
>
>
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