Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:26:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Hugh Blandford <hugh@globaldist.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with menu-driven disklabel Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970219102533.13478I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <330A6C3C.48F1@globaldist.com>
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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
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