Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:45:38 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resize /usr partition without resinstall Message-ID: <200412061945.38527.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <1102262881.687.16.camel@localhost> References: <1102262881.687.16.camel@localhost>
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:38 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I've got an 80GB drive partitioned as follows: > > salamander# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 496M 35M 421M 8% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1g 64G 262M 58G 0% /home > /dev/ad0s1d 496M 54K 456M 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1e 3.9G 3.0G 559M 85% /usr > /dev/ad0s1f 4.8G 114M 4.3G 2% /var > This does not show how the drive or even the slice is partitioned It only shows what is in the partitions. How it is partitioned is shown by disklabel or bsdlabel. > Is it possible to get more space for /usr by either allocating space > from /home or by providing a symlink to a partition on home? > Worthwhile suggestions for re-configuring need disklabel output. But you can easily move some parts some parts (trees) of /usr elswhere and symlink back to the normal position in /usr. In particular the /usr/ports and /usr/src trees come to mind Or of course you can rebuild any configuration you want in a virgin system and then restore from your backup ;) Malcolm > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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