From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 11:17:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CF616A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1F943D46 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:17:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AbPNB-0003l3-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:17:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AbPNA-0003kv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:17:44 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AbPNA-0003U5-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:17:44 +0100 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:17:42 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <3FF190B7.8030905@usmstudent.com> <200312301058.25742.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: combining partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:17:49 -0000 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