On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:22:19AM +0100, Marc Plumet wrote: > Dear all, > > my system : > kern.osreldate: 503001 > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Tue Nov 9 13:34:27 CET 2004 > > I am running Freebsd on a laptop (Compaq Evo N800c). > I have a winnt partition (8GB) > I have a ufs partition (11GB) <snip> > my problem is that /usr is getting full. ,snip> > I could scratch the winnt partition because I can do most of my work > now with FreeBSD, I still need java/openoffice though, but therfore I > need some free space first. > > Is there a way to use the free space from the "scratched-winnt" partition to > increase the /usr size ?
You could look at disk contatation, see gconcat(8) or striping, see gstripe(8). I'm not sure if this works for disk partitions, or if you need a complete disk for that. But this would require a backup of /usr, newfs-ing the concatenated device followed by restoring the backup. Another option would be to copy a large part of /usr, say /usr/local to the reformatted former winnt partition and mount it at /usr/local. Other directories could be moveed to the new partition and symlinked to their previous places. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards
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