Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:47:39 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Tor Stormwall <tor@stormwall.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing the size of my / partition Message-ID: <15215.22219.291340.710290@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <90498284@toto.iv>
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Tor Stormwall <tor@stormwall.org> types: > If I got this right, FreeBSD has an volume manager, like in HP-UX etc. > And if there are one. How can I take some space from /usr and put some > in my / partition. FreeBSD doesn't have a volume manager (having only seen AIX's, I'm *very* happy about that). However, recent versions have "growfs", which will grow a a file system to fill all of a partition if it doesn't feel the complete thing. If you can add space at the end of a partition, you can use growfs to expand the file system. To take space out of a partition, you have to dump it, shrink it, newfs the shorter partition, then restore the dump. So - if /usr follows / with nothing or nothing but swap, you can do what you're asking for. If that seems a bit much, you can find something on / and move it to /usr. /var and /tmp are standard choices to move. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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