From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 11:52:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.purenetfx.com (linux.purenetfx.com [207.179.24.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E0737B4EC for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@gzmarketing.com) Received: from picard ([207.179.24.38]) by linux.purenetfx.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA19669; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:43:18 -0700 Message-ID: <001301c09c3e$9040b8c0$2618b3cf@picard> From: "Brian T. Allen" To: "Harison Phinizy" , "slamdunk" Cc: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221184721.030bb698@pop3.neophile.net> Subject: Re: increasing the size of the /var partition Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:43:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just went through this, sort of. I wanted to add a new hard drive and have it be the new partition, /var in your instance. I followed the instructions in this FAQ and it worked... http://doc.pip.ru/FreeBSD/faq/FAQ39.html Budget a good hour to do it, but none of it was particularly difficult, and I am a newbie. Some of the information may also be applicable if you want to switch var to an existing empty partition. Brian > I am actually gonna have a go at answering this one. > > I had the same need to do this a week ago - Simple solution was to cp the > whole /var dir to another larger partition (/usr in my case) and then > create a symbolic link to /usr/var - Worked for me - hope it works for you > > Jerry > > At 10:37 21/02/2001 -0800, you wrote: > >Default has it at 19megs... I want to increase it to 1.9gb w/out > >re-intsall can I do that? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Harison > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message