Hello Jay, 

[email protected] (Jay Hart), 2018.07.27 (Fri) 04:42 (CEST):
> > Hello,
> > [email protected] (Jay Hart), 2018.07.25 (Wed) 21:31 (CEST):
> >> Running a stock 6.3 machine. I just bought a new server and hope to
> >> move this drive over, but think I need to move two partitions around
> >> at get more space.
> >
> > I'm not sure you need to...
> > My /usr is just 895M. Yours is fuller because you have /usr/local on the
> > same slice?
> > If so, I'd consider this the problem.
> > You'd have slices left after your wd0i[1], but is there unassigned
> > space left on the disk?
> > If so, I'd create a new slice and put /usr/local there.
> >
> > More info would have been helpful, show output of mount(8) and df(1),
> > disklabel, fdisk, dmesg, perhaps?
> >
> > [1] what, a wd(4)?! ;-)
> >
> > Marcus
> >
> 
> Actually, I have a separate /usr/local partition, just didn't mention
> it.

Why has your /usr twice as much on it than mine, then?
/usr/src? /usr/ports? du -sh /usr/*?

> Your post got me thinking (as did some of the others). I've been
> upgrading this box since 5.6 or
> so and maybe its time to wipe it and start fresh on the new box. Just
> copy over my config files after I'm done.
 
I've recently upgraded an equally outdated box and sysmerge(8) was no
fun. Lots of differences in config files after such a looong time makes
merging hard. Thus installing might be the right thing. 

> Since I just follow stable releases, I don't bother downloading the
> source code and building patches, so /usr should stay small and clean
> with syspatch and sysclean, unless I'm very wrong about how they work.

I think you got it right. /usr is rather static, unless it grows
rapidly, like recently for /usr/share/relink/. 
syspatch(8) gives you patches for errata for the latest release and one
version before, IIRC. sysclean(8) gives you a list of files not required
by the installed base system and the installed ports.

Marcus

> >> I have one drive installed, with about 6 partitions.
> >>
> >> /var is a 6.3G partition (wd0e) using 50M of space
> >> /usr is a 2.0G partition (wd0f) using 1.6G of space
> >>
> >> Last partition number is wd0i.
> >>
> >> What would the recommended procedure to use to swap these two partitions?

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