Re: partition deletion and creation

Jerry McAllister <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.database,gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi list,
> I have freeBSD installed on my 40 GB HDD with the
> foll. layout:
> / = 512MB
> swap=1GB
> /var=512MB
> /tmp=512MB
> /usr=8GB
> /home=26GB
> (It should roughly total to the max available ~37GB)
> I want to have /home resized to 20GB and then create 4
> mount points /u01=3GB,/u02=2GB,/u03=512MB,/u04=512MB.
> 
> I have 2 options:
> 1. using /stand/sysinstall-->fdisk to delete /home,
> create the new partitions, and then mount the
> mount-points. Q=will this format all older partitions
> (/usr,/...), forcing me to reinstall FreeBSD again?
> Clearly I don't want this. I have spent quite a while
> to get the setup running.

I believe that /stand/sysinstall treats the whole disk as new
and will build file systems on all partitions rather than just
partitions that have been tinkered with.  

I could well be wrong and /stand/sysinstall could be more sophisticated
than I think, but I wouldn't bank on it short of going through the code.

////jerry
> 
> 2. create links to /home/u01 from /u01, /home/u02 from
> /u02..
> ln -s /home/u01 /u01
> Can I install Oracle this way?
> 
> Since the second Q borders on DB and FreeBSD, I am
> sending this to both lists.
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> Tk
> 
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