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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:46:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      William Blair Wagner <blairwag1965@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   extending the /usr filesystem - HELP!
Message-ID:  <20020731204614.47546.qmail@web20809.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hey Gang,

Somewhat new to FreeBSD - I've found myself building
and installing many of the ports that I never thought
I'd install. so far, so good. However, I made the
/usr(/dev/ad2s1g) filesystem only 3GB. Now, I'm not
yet out of space, but seeing as I really like having
all this source code to peruse, I'd really like to
keep it all, and get more.

I also created a large 10GB file system and another
4GB file system, called /usr3(/dev/ad2s1h) and
/usr4(/dev/ad2s1d) respecively. I'd like to blow away
/usr3 and/usr4, then give about 6GB of space (now
freed up) to /usr, and create one final large
partition/slice and mount it on /usr3. The good news
is that the whole disk is dedicated to FreeBSD, and
/usr4 is the last (center slice) on the disk. /usr3 is
the next to the last slice on the disk, and /usr is
next to /usr3.

Ive been all over the handbook, along with other
documents and articles. I can see to run
/stand/sysinstall to do the fdisk and label editor
work. But, I'd really like to know that I'm doing this
right. I figured I'd delete the 2 slices at the end,
and give 6 more GB to /usr, and set the rest as one
large slice. Once done, how do I extend the /usr
filesystem without losing its contents.

I'm not usbscribed to this mailing list - so please
reply directly to me as well as the list, with useful
suggestions.

TIA - you *ARE* the best!


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William Blair Wagner   : Education is not always knowing the answer
blairwag1965@yahoo.com : ..but rather knowing where to look for it!
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