Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:24:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Julian Steinberg <Julian@imaginetrix.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Hullo Message-ID: <XFMail.000928132448.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <000801c02914$c8a11ae0$320aa8c0@PIII>
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On 28-Sep-00 Julian Steinberg wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to increase /root partition on my new 4.1.1 > install You can't. Use dump and restore to save/recreate your partitions. > The online docs seem to cover features on disklable editor that are no longer > available, such as the > (e) edit function > > I have spent a few days with a failed upgrade from 4.0 ( I blew away > /usr/src/sys by mistake when I was trying to delete ../../obj and couldn't > boot a kernel > > So I started from scratch, I have successfully gotten a new kernel set up with > firewall options in place. > > All seems ready to move forward with my 2 NIC'd firewall /gateway ( currently > using Winproxy on NT 4 ) > BSDBOX, but then I noticed that there's only 11% avail from my 50 mb root > partition. 50Megs should be sufficient. Perhaps you should find out what is taking all that space. % cd / % du -x -d 1 will give you a clue. If /tmp is large you can symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp or anywhere else you have space. > /Usr is derived from /root, right? > > Can I and is it possible to break /usr out from root and / or expand root > while maintaining the new system I have painstakingly set up? Normally /, /usr and /var are on different partitions (use 'df' to find out). If your disk consists of only these partitions then you would also have to make a partition smaller in order to get / larger. My recommendation is to find out why a / of 50Megs is not enough. It ought to be. Else I think is would be easier to start anew. You can of course dump your current settings and restore them when the new system is up and running. /Micke > thanks, > > J. Steinberg Sf Calif > > www.imaginetrix.com > > ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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