/usr out of space

[Nicholas Basila]

On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:19 am, hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> Aloha Nicholas
> Thanks for responding. I had just received a hint
> about growfs and while reading that I found out
> about newfs. I have indeed performed the newfs and
> can now mount /dev/da1s4f.
> Would it be possible to use growfs to add the new
> slice to /usr?
It is possible to use growfs, but in your case - more complicated, as 
you have /usr and the new /usr in two different slices.  You'd have to 
resize the slice with fdisk, then use disklabel and growfs. 




> If not, I will follow your instructions in this
> email.
> Thanks again.
> Robert
>
> > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:17 pm, hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> > > When I tried using bsdlabel without any options I got an error.
> > > So I then did a "bsdlabel -w da1s4" and the a "bsdlabel -e da1s4"
> > > and edited what I believe are the correct numbers for this slice.
> > > Now when I do the "bsdlabel da1s4" with no options, I get
> > >
> > > # /dev/da1s4:
> > > 8 partitions:
> > > #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> > >   c:  8980335        0    unused        0     0         # "raw"
> >
> > part,> don't edit f:  8980319       16    4.2BSD     2048 16384
> > 28552
> >
> > > I still get the above error when trying to mount this slice.
> > >
> > > To sum it up.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to mount, copy and change the /usr partition?
> > >
> > > If so, how do I correct the super block problem so I can mount?
> > >
> > > Or, is there a much easier way and I have been spinning my wheels
> >
> > for> the last 6 hours?
> >
> > 	Perhaps I've missed a step, but it seems that you never did a
> > newfs /
> > dev/da1s4f. If not, that would be an obvious explanation for the
> > incorrect super block error.
> > 	At any rate, it is pretty easy to copy data from usr to a new
> > slice and
> > change fstab. I do it on occasion. I would recommend making a copy
> > of
> > fstab that has the da1s4f as the /usr partition.
> > 	I do a tunefs -n enable on the new filesystem device. Then, I boot
> > into
> > single user mode, mount -ro /usr and mount -rw /newusr (and I even
> > mount /var if I need to do editing with vi.) I then tar or copy the
> > files over (dump works, too). After all that's done, umount /usr
> > and
> > umount /newusr. Copy the new version of fstab to /etc/fstab, and
> > try a
> > mount /usr or mount -a. If there are no errors, you should be able
> > to
> > hit control-d and finish the boot procedure.
> >
> >
> > Nicholas
> >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
> > > P.S. Here's what bsdlabel on da1s2 looks like;
> > >
> > > bsd-desktop# bsdlabel da1s2