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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
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>                            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