Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, I must ask a dumb question. Exactly what are distfiles? Source code is distributed in whatever manner the software author desires. Frequently this is a tarred and gzipped file, but it might be comp

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Darren
Thanks all. I just took the easy way out and copied my distfiles to /hd2 and then sym linked them back to /usr/ports. See it now :) scsibox# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 126M38M78M33%/ /dev/da1s1e 2.0G 1.3G 532M72%/hd2 /

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:50 am, backdoc wrote: >> I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger >> partition. >> >> Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else? >> >> I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. >> >> My partition layout

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:50 am, backdoc wrote: > I would like to combine the /hd2 and /usr partitions to one /new larger > partition. > > Should I research vinum or should I be reading something else? > > I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. > > My partition layout is: > scsibox# df -h > Filesys

Re: combining partitions

2003-03-10 Thread Bill Moran
Brendan Kosowski wrote: Is there a tool on the FreeBSD CD I can use to combine 2 partitions(BSD and/or FAT). I don't know of one directly. But you can backup/recreate/restore. Or, if you have enough space on the first partition, you can copy everything from the second to the first, delete the sec