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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news-hk.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-tokyo.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-stock.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-penn.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Partition Full Date: 3 Oct 1996 09:31:06 GMT Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <53014q$8t@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <01bbafd5$724a7e00$1340abce@dgainor.fia.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5053 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1381 In article <01bbafd5$724a7e00$1340abce@dgainor.fia.net>, "Drew Gainor" <dgainor@fia.net> writes: > My root Partition is full and I need to make it bigger. Is ther a way to do > this without reformatting the drive? Depends on your layout. Usually, your root partition is ?d0a and your swap partition is ?d0b (the ? depends on the controller). If you run "disklabel -r -e ?d0", you should be able to reduce your swap and increase your root partition. However, *be careful* ! Boot from the fixit floppy and do it from there. You don't want to end up swapping to the end of your root partition prior to the reboot ! Bear in mind, if the partition that you steal the space from is a file system (no swap following your boot partition), you'll have to save the data from it, do the above, then "newfs" the new partition to put the superblocks in the right place. This isn't necessary with swap. If your boot partition is at the end of the slice (or physical partition), you're up the swanny ! Re-post with your disk layouts if you can't figure it out. Look into "vnconfig" & "swapon"/fstab if you end up with not enough swap. Do a backup if you can - it's easy to screw these things up :) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....