Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:52:55 -0600 From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: repartitioning single harddrive Message-ID: <008e01c22505$32138740$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0207071144160.66386-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> <006401c224f7$392bf7a0$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> <007401c224fa$05631a40$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> <20020707024302.A81F9BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>
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All right, I see what you mean by the file structure. All I need is 50 megs for my FTP port, can I just kill the /tmp directory, and recreate it and my new partition? Is /tmp really even need it. Well I guess I will find out, it's all about learning. Thanks for the help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 8:43 PM Subject: Re: repartitioning single harddrive > On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:32 am, Grant Cooper wrote: > | Ok, I just realized something. I'm lost. After all this administrative > | stuff I been enlightened of the new file structure. I really don't want to > | loose all my old data. I used fdisk partition editor during my initial > | installation and used my entire disk for FreeBSD. Then on Disklabel I have > | 5 partitions I think. Drives a - g. In dos I would just go a: & d: for > | example. In freeBSD I have to mount to get to these drives? Also, my home > | directory - where is that data stored? What drive? Under Mount only dive > | that looks active is my SWAP drive > > How did you do the install? > > If you do a vaguely normal install it should all be automatically mounted for > you upon the reboot from the install. I mean, yes, you *do* have to mount a > drive for it to be availble, but this should have happened automatically for > you. > > So, for example, if you told it to use parition b (/dev/ad0s2b) for the usr > files, then you should find those files in > > /usr > > because they have already been mounted. > > Unlike in MS-DOS, you don't have to do all that goofy a: d: stuff; in fact, > unless there's a problem you don't really need to know what's a mountpoint > and what's just a directory; this is all transparent. > > Much more elegant, no? > > It is very different, however; I would strongly suggest reading an > introduction to Unix and its philosophy before proceeding much further into > the nitty-gritty. > > | > | > | ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> > | Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > | Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 8:12 AM > | Subject: repartitioning single harddrive > | > | > I am trying to re-partition my single hard drive. Can someone point me to > | > the direction of what tools I have to use. I'm not sure if I have to > | > /stand/sysinstall and do it from there? > | > > | > > | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > | > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > | > | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > http://www.babbleon.org > > http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org > > If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; > Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a > vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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