Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-14 Thread martinko
Aaron Burke wrote: SNIP (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar missing something? Well, technically no, but it requires more

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Andriy Gapon wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Aaron Burke wrote: SNIP (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar

RE: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-10 Thread Aaron Burke
SNIP (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar missing something? Well, technically no, but it requires more typing. gtar

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Aaron Burke wrote: SNIP (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar missing something? Well, technically no, but it

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/11/2006 14:32 Oliver Fromme said the following: Aaron Burke wrote: SNIP (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-09 Thread martinko
Aaron Burke wrote: Hello all, Hello Matt, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best and safest way to do it? Well, I know of two options. One which sounds really cool, is

RE: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-05 Thread Aaron Burke
Hello all, Hello Matt, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best and safest way to do it? Well, I know of two options. One which sounds really cool, is kind of broken, and is

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-04 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:17:33 -0500 Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best and safest way to do it? In my experience, there are only

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-04 Thread O. Hartmann
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:17:33 -0500 Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best and safest way to do it?

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-04 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:39:48 +0100 O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should also put /usr/src and /usr/obj on different devices, prefereably /usr/obj not on the system or any high I/O data device (if not on RAID). This speeds up buildworld! Does this make a real difference? Ie, does it

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/4/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:17:33 -0500 Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best

RE: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-03 Thread Matt Smith
Hello all, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best and safest way to do it? Matt ___

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-03 Thread Baldur Gislason
Your only option here as far as I know is to partition the drive to be the new /usr partition. To acheive this you would preferrably put the system into single user mode, create a partition on the new drive and mount it under /mnt for example. Then copy all the data between. I prefer to use dump