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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: repartitioning question
Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:54:24 GMT
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gbernard@dbc.com (Greg Bernard) writes:

> 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...

You have to backup first.

However, have a close look at the figures.  Normally, the root
partition is so small that the extra few megabytes won't really help
you.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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