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 1.6G 51% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 260M 14M 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]"
