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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!ubnsrv.unisource.ch!peroni.ita.tip.net!news.vol.it!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!hermes.athenet.net!ceil.fv.net!not-for-mail From: root@fv.net (Brian Bayorgeon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to combine two file systems Date: 28 Aug 1996 00:23:55 -0500 Organization: Brian's InterNetNews site Lines: 44 Message-ID: <500l5b$2lo@ceil.fv.net> References: <4vgbqa$7r@ceil.fv.net> <4vl92p$6s8@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm-at-0-24.athenet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : root@fv.net (Brian Bayorgeon) wrote: : > : > I am trying to re-work the disk partitions. Originally I created an : > additional partition (/data) beyond the standard /, /usr/, /var, and : > swap. I would now like to delete /var and /data and make a new, : > larger /var. My first thought was to use "sysinstall" from a boot : > disk and go into Custom, Label and use the Disklabel Editor. Then : Don't do it. The ``W)rite'' menu item wasn't doing really well, in : particular in this very first version of sysinstall. : You wanna collapse `e' and `g', so add the sizes of `e' and `g', and : use this one as the new size for `e'. Then delete the `g' line, and : you should be done. : cheers, J"org : joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE : Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) here is my disklabel output # /dev/wd1s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 204800 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 203*) b: 204800 204800 swap # (Cyl. 203*- 406*) c: 3173121 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 3147*) e: 614400 409600 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 406*- 1015*) f: 1943552 1024000 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 1015*- 2943*) g: 205569 2967552 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 2944 - 3147*) I want to combine e and g...if I add the size of g to e, what happens to f? I believe that new e will overlap into f....or not? f is my usr partition.....don't want to trash that!