[SunHELP] Adding disk space

Dale Ghent daleg at elemental.org
Tue Apr 9 09:39:11 CDT 2002


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Tige D. Chastain wrote:

| I'm wanting to increase the open space in /usr, /var, etc. so that when
| I install packages and the like, I don't have to worry about putting
| stuff in strange locations.  Should I just scrap the box and start
| over?  I don't have much data on it and reinstallation would be a big
| issue.  But it would be nice to know if something of this nature could
| be done.

Why not use one of your new, bigger drives as your system drive instead?

No need to reinstall. just partition the new drive, mount it's partitions
and tar data from the smaller one to the bigger one. Run installboot and
go.

/dale



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