Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:17:42 -0500 From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: combining partitions Message-ID: <bssj0n$csa$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <3FF190B7.8030905@usmstudent.com> <200312301058.25742.kstewart@owt.com>
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Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:50 am, backdoc wrote: >> I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger >> partition. >> >> Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else? >> >> I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. >> >> My partition layout is: >> scsibox# df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/da0s1a 126M 39M 77M 33% / >> /dev/da1s1e 2.0G 185M 1.7G 10% /hd2 >> /dev/da0s1f 252M 4.7M 227M 2% /tmp >> /dev/da0s1g 3.2G 2.9G 58M 98% /usr >> /dev/da0s1e 252M 67M 165M 29% /var >> procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc >> > > You would probably find it easier to determine what is eating up your disk > space and move that to /hd2. For example, my /usr/ports/distfiles runs > around 1.5 GB. Just moving distfiles to hd2 and linking it to > /usr/ports/distfiles would free up a lot of space. On one machine that I > don't use a lot of HD space, I mounted a 10 GB slice as /usr/ports. If you DO want to consolodate those partitions, you'll probably have to back them up using dump, delete both partitions, create the consolodated large partition, and then restore the backup. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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