Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:33:01 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-arranging disk slice allocation Message-ID: <20040625163301.5f698844.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1088194994.94716.2.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> References: <1088194994.94716.2.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com>
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Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a headless server running and when I first setup the system I > messed up the disk slice allocations. I would like to know how it is > possible to take allocations from one and give it to another? > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 508M 57M 410M 12% / > > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > > /dev/ad0s1g 11G 6.1G 4.3G 59% /home > > /dev/ad0s1d 1037M 12K 954M 0% /tmp > > /dev/ad0s1f 7.3G 1.5G 5.2G 22% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 12G 31M 11G 0% /var > > for some reason I did a bo bo and gave /var 12G of space! I want > to give it to /home, b/c that's where I have my NFS folder. How would > I got about doing this? You partitions appear to be ordered on the disk thusly: /, swap, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home Because of this, you can't repartition /var and /home without also repartitioning /usr. At that point, you're almost reinstalling. What you'd have to do is back up /var, /usr, and /home, then repartition those three, and then restore to the new /var, /usr, /home. You could always symlink the directory in /home to some location on /var to get most of what you want. See 'man ln'. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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