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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU!s_koyin From: s_koyin@eduserv.unimelb.edu.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: repartitioning question Date: 15 Mar 1996 05:34:57 GMT Organization: The University of Melbourne Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4iavi1$e3d@news.unimelb.EDU.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au Originator: s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU > REPARTITIONING QUESTION > > From: gbernard@dbc.com (Greg Bernard) > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:36:25 GMT > >I have a question about repartitioning my hard drive. My usr >partition is almost full, at about 96%, and the root partition is >practically empty at about 34%. Can I safely use the partition editor >to allocate some more space to the usr partition from the root >partition, or will this corrupt the system? I can/should back up the >system first, so... symlink /usr files to a directory on / (say, /user). fdisk, disklabel or newfs will destroy. XXX Ivan Ngeow