/usr too small

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:22:19AM +0100, Marc Plumet wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> my system :
> kern.osreldate: 503001
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Tue Nov  9 13:34:27 CET 2004
> 
> I am running Freebsd on a laptop (Compaq Evo N800c).
> I have a winnt partition (8GB)
> I have a ufs partition (11GB)
> 
> I have ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=38760 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> 
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=38760 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> 
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
>     start 63, size 16374897 (7995 Meg), flag 0
>         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
>         end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
> The data for partition 2 is:
> sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 16374960, size 22695120 (11081 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
>         end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
> 
> my problem is that /usr is getting full.
> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s2a    507630  362568 104452    78%    /
> devfs               1       1      0   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s2f   3966294 2783584 865408    76%    /home
> /dev/ad0s2e   4737646 4222964 135672    97%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s2d   1012974   55104 876834     6%    /var
> 
> I could scratch the winnt partition because I can do most of my work now with 
> FreeBSD, I still need java/openoffice though, but therfore I need some free 
> space first.
> 
> Is there a way to use the free space from the "scratched-winnt" partition to 
> increase the /usr size ?

You're best bet is probably to make the winnt drive into /usr/local.
That's there the biggest stuff goes.  You may have to do some further
juggling of space to get openoffice to build, but it will certaintly
install.

-- Brooks

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