Re: partition resizing help!!! PLZ
when I installed freebsd I tried to resize the /dev partion bigger and It told me it was not possible even though I had 5GB of free space it only let me to use preset partition sizes:( So know my /dev partiotion is too small. and the OS is installed with KDE as GUI. and my /dev fills to compasity and fails every thing that dosna fit into it. Is there a way to resize the partions Now without having to reinstall from scratch. Well, I have never made a separate partition for /dev, but... You also don't say what you tried. If you tried to use growfs, you have to have empty space contiguous with the partition to grow in to it. If the space is not contiguous, no matter how much there is, I don't think you can grow in to it. Partitions are contiguous chunks of disk space. You will have to back things up and rebuild from scratch. ALso, if you have a /dev partition and it is filling up, I think you might have some other problem such as a non-made device that you are writing to which the system is just treating as a regular file and not a device. /dev isn't normally so big. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
partition resizing help!!! PLZ
when I installed freebsd I tried to resize the /dev partion bigger and It told me it was not possible even though I had 5GB of free space it only let me to use preset partition sizes:( So know my /dev partiotion is too small. and the OS is installed with KDE as GUI. and my /dev fills to compasity and fails every thing that dosna fit into it. Is there a way to resize the partions Now without having to reinstall from scratch. = No Hope in the future Look To the past to find redimsioun. __ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: partition resizing help!!! PLZ
Rogue Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when I installed freebsd I tried to resize the /dev partion bigger and It told me it was not possible even though I had 5GB of free space it only let me to use preset partition sizes:( So know my /dev partiotion is too small. and the OS is installed with KDE as GUI. and my /dev fills to compasity and fails every thing that dosna fit into it. Is there a way to resize the partions Now without having to reinstall from scratch. You'll have to give more information. /dev is on a devfs on FreeBSD 5.x, which means it doesn't take any real disk space to begin with. On an earlier version, /dev has to be on the root filesystem (and will take up less than 100 kilobytes). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password public ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
