Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:00:15 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: MET <met@uberstats.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! Message-ID: <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> References: <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:35:56PM -0400, MET wrote: > I'm dumb. I just realized that on my laptop (running FreeBSD) I didn't > allocate all of the space on my disk that I should have. Basically, I > have 9 Gig's just sitting there doing NOTHING. I'd like to attach it to > my /usr partition as that's where I would have put it in the first place > had I not been stupid. > > So how would I go about doing this? One way is to leave the existing /usr alone. Partition, label, and format the extra space. Mount it someplace such as /usr1. Or better yet mount it as /home and move your user account(s) over to the new space. After all, you already have everything installed so you seem ot have enough space on /usr already and would need space for personal playing. If /usr is too lean for future use such as having enough space for rebuilding the system then "mkdir /home/obj" and "rm -rf /usr/obj; ln -s /home/obj /usr/obj". Can do the same thing for /usr/ports, and /usr/src, altho I suggest one use "mv". I have moved /usr/obj and /usr/ports this way on several machines. FreeBSD is quite happy with a symbolic link for these. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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