Re: Help with editing partition tables
On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is installed on the 3 GB drive, but my current partition table is inadequate to my needs. Here is the output of df -H: /dev/ad0s1a 260M 254M -15.3M 106%/ devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1f 3.4G 1.6G 1.6G51%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 260M14M 225M 6%/var hi Phil, you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. If you decide to reinstall (which is the easiest approach if there's 'not much too lose yet' on your system) just hit 'a' in the disklabel editor of sysinstall(8). This will create separate slices for /, swap, /var, /tmp and /usr, and will result in a reasonable disk layout for a desktop system. If you do not want to reinstall and have free space left on your other hard disk, you can create a bsd partition there and one or more slices inside this partition (250M should be enough for /tmp under 'normal' circumstances). Then you can mount the new file systems under arbitrary mount points, move the content of /tmp (and eventually /usr/home) over and adjust /etc/fstab. Feel free to check back with the list if you want to go this way and need more detailed advice. have fun! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with editing partition tables
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is installed on the 3 GB drive, but my current partition table is inadequate to my needs. Here is the output of df -H: /dev/ad0s1a 260M 254M -15.3M 106%/ devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1f 3.4G 1.6G 1.6G51%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 260M14M 225M 6%/var hi Phil, you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. If you decide to reinstall (which is the easiest approach if there's 'not much too lose yet' on your system) just hit 'a' in the disklabel editor of sysinstall(8). This will create separate slices for /, swap, /var, /tmp and /usr, and will result in a reasonable disk layout for a desktop system. If you do not want to reinstall and have free space left on your other hard disk, you can create a bsd partition there and one or more slices inside this partition (250M should be enough for /tmp under 'normal' circumstances). Then you can mount the new file systems under arbitrary mount points, move the content of /tmp (and eventually /usr/home) over and adjust /etc/fstab. Feel free to check back with the list if you want to go this way and need more detailed advice. When you say partition, you really mean slice and vice-versa. Ruben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with editing partition tables
On Monday 17 May 2004 14:41, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is installed on the 3 GB drive, but my current partition table is inadequate to my needs. Here is the output of df -H: /dev/ad0s1a 260M 254M -15.3M 106%/ devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1f 3.4G 1.6G 1.6G51%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 260M14M 225M 6%/var hi Phil, you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. If you decide to reinstall (which is the easiest approach if there's 'not much too lose yet' on your system) just hit 'a' in the disklabel editor of sysinstall(8). This will create separate slices for /, swap, /var, /tmp and /usr, and will result in a reasonable disk layout for a desktop system. If you do not want to reinstall and have free space left on your other hard disk, you can create a bsd partition there and one or more slices inside this partition (250M should be enough for /tmp under 'normal' circumstances). Then you can mount the new file systems under arbitrary mount points, move the content of /tmp (and eventually /usr/home) over and adjust /etc/fstab. Feel free to check back with the list if you want to go this way and need more detailed advice. When you say partition, you really mean slice and vice-versa. Ruben oops.. thanks for the correction. maybe I should stop flirting with Linux .-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with editing partition tables
platanthera writes: you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. May I ask your logic here? Is this about safety, convenience, overcrowding? Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with editing partition tables
On Monday 17 May 2004 17:07, Robert Huff wrote: platanthera writes: you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. May I ask your logic here? Is this about safety, convenience, overcrowding? You noticed that I accidently mixed up slices with partitions, didn't you? Separating /usr, /tmp and /var from the / filesystem (a) reduces write access to the / fs significantly, thus increasing your chances to get away without serious trouble in cases of enforced hard reboot (power failure etc.) and (b) allows you to take advantage of soft updates for the non-/ fs' which results in better fs performance (which is probably not very important for /tmp). Whether you create a separate /home partition or not on a single user machine is more or less a matter of your individual preferences. regards ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with editing partition tables
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is installed on the 3 GB drive, but my current partition table is inadequate to my needs. Here is the output of df -H: /dev/ad0s1a 260M 254M -15.3M 106%/ devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1f 3.4G 1.6G 1.6G51%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 260M14M 225M 6%/var As you can see /dev/ad0s1a is dangerously full, and I hadn't finished installing applications yet (it got this full as I was compiling/installing Pine). Is there a way to change the partition table to allocate more space to /dev/ad0s1a? Sounds like a job for fdisk, but man fdisk leave me none the wiser on how to proceed with this. I've checked the online handbook too. Can anyone point me to a guide on this process or give me some pointers? TIA! Most likely the problem is /root filling up with stuff that shouldn't be there--if you have created a normal user start using that one for your daily activity and clean out all the app-related files and directories in /root. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
