Resizing disk labels

[Roland Giesler]

Further to my posting, I just used KDiskFree to view die layout and it
appears that my root is full.  It reports that 108% of the disk is in use,
which obvioulsy is not possible!

Regards

Roland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Roland Giesler
> Sent: 25 November 2003 14:17
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Resizing disk labels
>
>
> I have installed FreeBSD in a server with the default setting in the label
> editor.  I hope my terminology is correct, since I'm refering to /etc /usr
> etc.  Now I've installed a squid, KDE, DHCP, Java (not complete yet!),
> Apache and some other stuff.  While installing Qmail, I ran out of disk
> space on /etc. but /usr still has 17GB free.
>
> How can I resize the "labels" so /etc grows to 1GB for example?  I've
> searched all over and it appears that one can grow the size, but
> not shrink
> it?
>
> What I've really looking for is a tool like partitionmagic for
> FAT or NTFS.
> Does such a tool exist and if not what are my options here?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roland Giesler
>
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