Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98.
When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98. After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is almost out of file handles. A sensible solution.. how about removing my 800M of Windows and capturing it for FBSD. NOTE - please read end of email concerning inodes. Looking for suggestions and warnings..! Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. Something important to note, I am not out of disk space but have run out of file handles (BSD calls them Inodes) - so it really is nodes that I need to recapture not space - might this have some implications that necessitate a complete reformat or re-install?? Suggestions and comments greatly appreciated. Cheers, Graham/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
