From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 4:35: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B790C37B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:35:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F022943EB2 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk) Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk ([194.222.241.254]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18aEfC-0001nr-0Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:34:58 +0000 Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0JCZeLB027190 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:35:40 GMT (envelope-from jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk) Received: (from jeff@localhost) by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0JCZYUs027189 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:35:34 GMT Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:35:34 +0000 From: Jeff Penn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Resizing partitions for 5.0 Message-ID: <20030119123534.GB27061@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need to resize my root partition to prepare for 5.0 which requires 30M of free space. Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s4a 61M 40M 16M 71% / /dev/ad0s4d 1.3G 788M 480M 62% /opt /dev/ad0s4h 2.1G 430M 1.6G 21% /home /dev/ad0s4e 244M 20M 205M 9% /tmp /dev/ad0s4g 2.4G 946M 1.3G 42% /usr /dev/ad0s4f 61M 15M 41M 27% /var My BSD slice layout will enable me to steal space for root from swap & tmp. I am also considering using this as an excuse to change /usr, currently I have /usr/obj & /usr/src linked to directories on /opt. I am fishing for wisdom on the worth of breaking up /usr. Directories I've considered moving around are: 158M /usr/X11R6 91M /usr/compat 546M /usr/local 299M /usr/src/ 27M /usr/obj/ Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message