help with rezise freebsd slice

[Dino Vliet]

Hi there,
I’m running FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop together with
win98 and I am pleased with the OS as from day 1.
However, I ran out of disk space when installing
gnucash. Because my FreeBSD slice is not too big, I
resized my win98 partition and now I have 1.5 GB
before the FreeBSD slice free available.
I wanted to make FreeBSD resize a partition “on the
fly” but after looking at some Internet pages I found,
it seems that won’t work.

So now, I came up with this marvelous idea, to mount
my win98 partition in freebsd.
Move the /usr directory to that partition and then
reinstall freebsd 4.9!!
After that I want to get rid of the /usr directory of
the 4.9 installation and restore the original 4.8
(which would then be on my windows partition)
directory on it. In that way I don’t have to reinstall
my applications (postgresql, R, diablo-jdk and weak
etc).

This sounds too good to be true and does anyone know
if this will work?
What are the drawbacks? Can I do something else to
resize my /usr directory ? I only want to resize my
FreeBSD slice and make the /usr directory bigger. Any
help or comments on this issue is welcome because I
have to do something

Look at my disk :
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s3a   984M   132M   774M    15%    /
/dev/ad0s4e   1.8G   1.6G    47M    97%    /usr
/dev/ad0s3e   441M   5.1M   401M     1%    /var
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc

Brgds
Robert


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
http://photos.yahoo.com/