Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:36:41 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail23@bzerk.org> To: "Michael A. Alestock" <michaela@maa-net.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LABEL (The FreeBSD Disklabel Editor) Message-ID: <20030916113641.GA5806@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030916061250.D70110@bsd.maa-net.net> References: <20030916061250.D70110@bsd.maa-net.net>
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:19:28AM -0400, Michael A. Alestock typed: > I have an existing FreeBSD v4.7 installation and want to delete a small > filesystem that I had designated for email (/var/mail), and want to freeup > that unused space to the '/usr/home' filesystem. If I use DISKLABEL to > delete '/var/mail', and then re-write '/usr/home' to reflect the added > space (writing the changes to the SAME '/usr/home' partition), will that > erase the '/usr/home' filesystem and all of its user-data contents > from the disk itself??? Using disklabel in itself won't erase any data. Depending on the physical location of the partitions on the disk you can use growfs(8) to enlarge your /usr/home partition. Read the manpage and make backups to be sure! Ruben > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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