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Date:      Mon, 06 Aug 2001 19:47:50 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
To:        Tor Stormwall <tor@stormwall.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: changing the size of my / partition
Message-ID:  <3B6ED846.19A3C340@i-clue.de>
References:  <3B6ECD36.A64959C7@stormwall.org>

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Tor Stormwall wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> If I got this right, FreeBSD has an volume manager, like in HP-UX etc.
> And if there are one. How can I take some space from /usr and put some
> in my / partition.

There is no (full-blown) volume manager yet in FreeBSD. Vinum (see it's
manpage) allows you to get almost there.

Since the filesystem does not (yet) support size changes, you cannot
reallocate disk space.

The only alternative at this time is to backup, repartition, restore.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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