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From: alcocer@netcom.com (Dario Alcocer)
Subject: Moving /usr, /usr/src to new disk?
Message-ID: <alcocerE49Myq.4Iu@netcom.com>
Summary: Ideas on moving /usr filesystem to new disk
Keywords: filesystem moving /usr
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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:23:14 GMT
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I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.0, with wd0 a 850MB WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm
starting to run out of space under /usr, and I want to install some new
software (emacs, among others), and I don't have enough room left. I was
thinking of moving a second 850MB disk (same model) from my Windows PC to
my FreeBSD machine as wd1.
What I'd like to do is move /usr and /usr/src to this new disk. This the
procedure I was contemplating on using for this:
o shutdown machine to install the new IDE disk, and boot
to single-user mode.
o run fdisk, disklabel, and newfs to setup a couple of filesystems
on new disk (ideas to do this more easily are welcome)
o for /usr and /usr/src, run the following comands:
# mount /dev/wd1s1X /mnt (where X are the new slices for /usr
and /usr/src)
# cd /mnt
# dump 0f - /dev/rwd0s1e | restore -rvf -
# umount /mnt
Will this work correctly? Any ideas on how to do this more
easily/safely/correctly are welcome.
BTW, here's what my current configuration looks like:
pino# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 19966 14288 4080 78% /
/dev/wd0s1h 145110 111314 22186 83% /u
/dev/wd0s1e 201310 181268 3936 98% /usr
/dev/wd0s1f 302222 157636 120408 57% /usr/src
/dev/wd0s1g 100398 44460 47906 48% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
Thanks in advance.
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Dario Alcocer
alcocer@netcom.com
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Dario Alcocer
alcocer@netcom.com