Micah Lieske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hal wrote: > > I have three adjacent disk partitions as reported by > > bsdlabel. > > ad0s1g /local > > ad0s1b swap > > ad0s1h /home > > /local is at around 107% full all the time and needs to > > grow. /home is nearly empty ( new machine). > > What I want to do is combine ad0s1g and h into > > a new /local and add another disk for /home. > > I have tried sysinstall disklabel to delete > > the three partitions g, b, and h then recreate swap and > > /local. But noooooo the program says it can't write > > to the disk. BTW /local and /home were umounted and I > > was in single user mode. > > I suppose I could get creative with mount points but I > > would rather resize/combine the three partitions into two. > > How can I do that (short of a reinstall)? > > hal > > If you just want to wipe out the partitions and recreate, you can use > sysinstall as you tried, with one exception that I found. You have to > boot from the live CD (CD 1 in 5.4). Sysinstall doesn't seem to want > to write labels out to drives that are in use.
Less elegant, but much easier, would be to move some large directory trees from /local to /home, and not repartition at all. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
