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Old 20th May 2008
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Hi,
I've got my freeBSD system up and running and doing everything I want. But I am running out of disk space and wish to add a new HD.

If I do so, will I have to re-install FreeBSD or will I be able to partition the new disk which will be recognised as part of the filesystem?

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Jonathan.

PS: I am running FreeBSD 7.0
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Yes and the handbook has a fine chapter on adding new disks.


The process basically amounts to shutdown (needed on regular PCs), install the disk, boot FreeBSD, fdisk it, bsdlabel it, newfs it, add it to /etc/fstab. It is quite simple especially on FreeBSD.


If you want to move your current installation to the new disk I would suggest a boot into single user mode, mount the afore mentioned and installed second drive and do a dump/restore from old drive to new drive; porting the fstab file as necessary and then shut down and physically swap the disks.



My OpenBSD machine was installed on a single 8GB disk. Later I hooked up an 80GB disk with two partitions in the slice which mounts as srv on / and local on /usr.

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Terry@vectra-$ df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a      147M   31.2M    109M    22%    /
/dev/wd0h      393M    936K    372M     0%    /home
/dev/wd0d     98.3M    226K   93.2M     0%    /tmp
/dev/wd0g      6.7G    738M    5.6G    11%    /usr
/dev/wd0e      148M   32.7M    108M    23%    /var
/dev/wd1a     11.8G   44.2M   11.2G     0%    /usr/local
/dev/wd1d     44.3G   12.2G   29.8G    29%    /srv
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Hi! I have a similar question. But i have a disk which allready has previous install of freebsd and i would like to keep one partition of it.

Can i somehow wipe out rest of the partitions and extend the one i want to keep with it´s data?
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Yes, cetainly, but I have never done it.

The answer will certainly involve the growfs(8) utility, which will happily expand an ufs partition to whatever size you need it.
Read the manpage and you'll find out. It is a little complex, however, as it requires you to set up the disklabel first, and then growfs will expand to it. You will probably need dd to move the partition to the start of the disk first, as well.
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be sure to take a backup of anything important and get it off that disk before trying that, just in case of human error.


(dump and tar are useful -- and paranoia saved the cats ninth life)
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