Re: Moving/Removing Filesystems
Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill the entire disk. Is there an easy way to do that without formatting the entire hard drive. I've updated the system to 5-STABLE and have installed many ports and I don't want to lose that (limited bandwidth). Just re-partition that slice and great UFS2 partition(s) in it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving/Removing Filesystems
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:12:55PM -0500, Tom Moyer wrote: I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill the entire disk. Is there an easy way to do that without formatting the entire hard drive. I've updated the system to 5-STABLE and have installed many ports and I don't want to lose that (limited bandwidth). Thanks, Tom Poke around in the FAQs at freebsd.org. Here is one little tutorial on adding a new harddisk to a system. Your not adding a new physical disk, but the principles will the same. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html Also see this document: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#ADDING-DISKS Nathan pgptRuGhmxg78.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Moving/Removing Filesystems
On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:34, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:12:55PM -0500, Tom Moyer wrote: I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill the entire disk. Is there an easy way to do that without formatting the entire hard drive. I've updated the system to 5-STABLE and have installed many ports and I don't want to lose that (limited bandwidth). Thanks, Tom Poke around in the FAQs at freebsd.org. Here is one little tutorial on adding a new harddisk to a system. Your not adding a new physical disk, but the principles will the same. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index. html Also see this document: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#ADDING-DISK This will allow you to move your FBSD installation to the new slice. Once you have done that (and tested it) I think you can extend the final partion in the lower slice over the top of the second slice using fdisk, bsdlabel and growfs. So if you set all the other partitions to their required size, you should be able to achieve any layout you like. I've never done this myself, but see man growfs as a starting point. If you don't fancy that, you could simply repartition the second slice and use it as /usr or /home. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving/Removing Filesystems
I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill the entire disk. Is there an easy way to do that without formatting the entire hard drive. I've updated the system to 5-STABLE and have installed many ports and I don't want to lose that (limited bandwidth). Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
