Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:40:56 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: ptitoliv <ptitoliv@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing /var Message-ID: <20050611144056.GA38218@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <42AAF4C5.3090802@polands.org> References: <42AAEA6B.9030602@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> <20050611135853.GA37790@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <42AAF4C5.3090802@polands.org>
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On 2005-06-11 09:27, Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-06-11 15:43, ptitoliv <ptitoliv@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> wrote: >>> But there are some constraints : >>> >>>- I have no free unpartitioned space available >>>- I can't format any partition because and I can't loose datas >>> >>> Is there any solution with some BSD tools in order to solve this problem ? >> >> None that I know of. Your best bet is, I guess, to find somewhere >> enough space for a backup, repartition & restore session. > > Doesn't it make sense to simply move selectetd directories to a > partition with free space and create symlinks? I would think moving > /var/db and /var/log would suffice for most situations. True. It does. To be frank, I didn't even think of this (mostly because I usually keep /var big enough for the work I do and never found myself in need of shuffling things around a lot).
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