Hi all,
Short question: what is the easiest way to increase size of a mounted volume to 8GB and what steps are needed.
Being new to FreeBSD I need some hands on step by step instructions, I don't seem to understand the manpages well because of too many too unfamiliar terms.
While installing KDE 4.2 (giving me many headaches, but that's a different story) the installation aborted because of not enough disk space. The FreeBSD system is inside a VMWare host and I can assign as much disk space as needed, but how do I do that? Can I use growfs? If so, how do I mount / unmount? I'd like to increase to 8GB, how do I do so? Can I add another Filesystem (partition?) to a mounted volume (meaning: /usr)? If yes, how?
Because I might not be using the right terms, I added a screenshot. The /usr entry is the one I want to increase.
Thanks for any help!
Filesystem sizes and mounts
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Thanks for your answer. The first link only seems to explain that mounting additional space is not possible to an existing mount. The second is about disk organization of which I'm aware. I'm after a hands-on step-by-step to increase my disk space. On Windows (or Linux) a third party tool like PartitionMagic should do, but I was under the impression that on well designed unix/bsd based systems such thing would not be necessary. Why else is there the growfs command?
Thanks for your answer, oklit. If this is not the way to do it, what steps (hope they're quite trivial) can I undertake to enlarge the partition? Or can I unmount a part, use growfs and remount, even if it is in use (probably not)?
In Windows I would use PartitionMagic or something along those lines. How do others deal with this?
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by: uetian1707Posted on 2009-02-19 at 21:12:17ID: 23689015
Hi,
Please read the below articles;
http://www.linuxquestions.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc