From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 19: 9:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB8015841 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA07410; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:09:15 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: evablunted@earthling.net ("Langa Kentane") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding another drive to supplement disk space Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 02:23:02 GMT Message-ID: <37f17734.1123212333@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Sep 1999 07:38:09 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hi >My server, FreeBSD 3.2-R, installed on a 1.2 gig drive gives me the ff >output when I run df: > >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/wd0s1a 39647 19146 17330 52% / >/dev/wd0s1f 1083119 988178 8292 99% /usr >/dev/wd0s1e 19815 2601 15629 14% /var >procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc >/dev/wcd0c 647270 647270 0 100% /cdrom > >Now my plan is to buy a 9 gig drive for the /usr partition for space for my >users and also my web server that I am running on the machine. Here are the *rough* steps. If this is your first time installing and formating drives, you may wish to play on another machine. Backup all your important stuff... But *roughly* speaking, here are the steps Install the drive /stand/sysinstall, fdisk the new drive so that the partition is BSD disklabel it and use it all. Mount it for now at /mnt mv /usr/home/* /mnt umount /mnt mount /dev/wd1e (most likly its name) /usr/home edit /etc/fstab accordinging ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message