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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:09:45 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        paul@nation-net.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Increasing a FIPSed partition
Message-ID:  <199606191909.TAA27599@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <31C7D4B6.7AAA@nation-net.com> (message from Paul Walsh on Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:21:42 %2B0100)

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> I've got freeBSD running in a partition created by FIPS. Is it possible 
> to increase its size 

Not without backing up and re-installing...

> and then either create additional file systems in 
> freeBSD or increase the size of /usr etc ?
> 
> (without reinstalling !)

...but you could create another partition and mount, say, /usr/src
or /usr/local on it.

eg if you have a 1GB IDE disk with a 430MB DOS partition you no longer
want <g> and a 570MB FreeBSD partition which is getting rather tight,
you could use get rid of the DOS partition, put a FreeBSD partition
where it used to be, move all your files from /usr/local onto it and
add a line to /etc/fstab like

/dev/wd0s1		/usr/local	ufs	rw 1 2

and you now have 430MB of extra space in /usr!

(Warning:- the fstab entry is very dependent on what kind of disk you
have and what partitions are on it. Don't copy the one above blindly).

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk



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