From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 10:29:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA10204 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA09920 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA13545; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:26:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:26:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Hugh Blandford cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with menu-driven disklabel In-Reply-To: <330A6C3C.48F1@globaldist.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Hugh Blandford wrote: > I am trying to reassign my disk space between /var, /usr and so on. > > I have backed everything up and booted from the floppy. Running the > Custom install option from the menu I go into the label option to > reconfigure things. > > After I have everything the way I want it I use W to write the changes > to the disk. However, at this point I get a message that says: > > You must partition the disk before this option can be used. > > The disk is already partitioned and I do not really want to have to go > through a complete reinstall process. All I am doing is resizing /usr > and /var. You cannot resize these without destroying the contents of these partitions. Backup your system, delete the slice, then recreate your slice & partitions. Install the bare minumums so you can get into the system, then restore. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major