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- From: etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao)
- Subject: Re: Disk Partitioning
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.214918.157285@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- References: <1992Jul17.182425.117776@zeus.calpoly.edu> <245@ftms.UUCP>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:49:18 GMT
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- In article <245@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul17.182425.117776@zeus.calpoly.edu> etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao) writes:
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- >Repartitioning should be done in this order:
- >
- >1. Backup all data on the partition to be resized
- >2. Unmount the partition to be resized.
- >3. Run "format" to repartion the drive, using the partition menu options.
- >4. Save the new partition using the format's "label" command.
- >5. Run newfs on the resized and/or new partitions.
- >6. Change /etc/fstab to reflect any new partitions.
- >7. Mount the partition(s).
- >8. Restore the data.
- >
- >From your posting, it appears that you never did a backup or newfs.
- >--
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- >INTERNET: brown@wi.extrel.com or ftms!brown%astroatc.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu
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- As my earlier followup says, I was actually looking for a way to "grow" the
- fs into the partition without having to backup/newfs/restore because this
- deals with the root and /usr partitions. I was hoping to avoid having to boot
- miniroot etc... As for backups, I did an rdump both before I repartitioned
- and before I booted miniroot. Unfortunately, I forgot that I needed to move
- the tape drive to the machine in question inorder to restore :-j. Everything,
- is working fine now but I would still like to know if it is possible to
- "resize" a filesystem.
-
- - E.T.
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