On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:50:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I enlarge my /usr slice on a disk? > Do I need to re-partition my disks? > I have: 34gb Raid and 2 10gb SCSI HDD's. The RAID array is now NTFS and > the other 2 are chopped into NTFS, fat16 and FreeBSD. I could add another > 4gb to FreeBSD - but how? > I am not too enthusiastic about reinstalling everything. I just updated to > FBSD 4.7 and need to add space to install openofice.
The easiest thing to do is probably to use some or all of the available 4Gb as a new filesystem mounted under /usr. For instance, /usr/local might be a good choice. You need to copy the current contents of /usr/local onto the new partition, move the old /usr/local aside somewhere and mount the new one in it's place: Assuming the disk partition where you have space is /dev/da2s2 something like the following (in single user mode): mount -a fdisk -i da2 [ Mark slice 2 as belonging to FreeBSD ] disklabel -e da2s2 [ Create a 4.2BSD partition /dev/da2s2e, say ] newfs /dev/da2s2e mkdir /usr/local.new mount -t ufs /dev/da2s2e /usr/local.new rsync -avx /usr/local/ /usr/local.new/ [ rsync(1) is only one way to copy the whole directory tree over. Obviously, you need to install ports/net/rsync before dropping to single user... Another alternative might be: cd /usr/local ; tar -cf - . | ( cd /usr/local.new ; tar -xvpf - ) or there are similar methods using find+cpio, dump+restore etc.] umount /usr/local.new mv /usr/local /usr/local.old mkdir /usr/local mount -t ufs /dev/da2s2e /usr/local diff -ur /usr/local.old /usr/local [ make sure everything copied OK etc. ] vi /etc/fstab [ add /dev/da2s2e to standard mounts ] reboot Now, when the system comes back up multiuser you should have a separate /usr/local partition containing the same files as the original /usr/local directory. Once you're satisfied that everything has gone according to plan you can delete /usr/local.old and make merry in the extra space that becomes available. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message