Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:47:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bsdlist@vampextream.com (bsdlist) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resizeing partion Message-ID: <200406102347.i5ANlqT18901@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040610223559.M7099@vampextream.com> from "bsdlist" at Jun 10, 2004 03:57:40 PM
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> > i have fbsd 4.10 and i need to find out if theres a way to resize a > partion and shrink a different one to gain some room .. see what it is > is im fairley new to fbsd and i whent with the default err the auto > setting for partion sizeing durring sysinstall and now after a few > months i found out that one of the partions is to small nameley /var > so now i need to find out if theres some way to resize that partion > and shrink my main / partion to gain the needed room all with out > destroying > my files and such that i currentley have install .. IE: > nondestructiveley .. Your best bet is to abck up everything and remake the whole disk layout and then restore things. You will either need an additional disk or to do a new install on the one you have. Especially since you want to shrink something at the beginning of the disk, it isn't dooable on the fly. > thx inadvance for any help on this quistion/issue > > FreeBSD vampextream.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun > 3 15:24:56 PDT 2004 > root@vampextream.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAMPEXTREAM i386 > > > PS: one of the maintainers that incharge of programming the default > disk size should make it bigger IE: 500 - 1gig in size for ppl thats > new to fbsd or at least meation some where durring install that /var > should be larger insize if you plan on haveing a lot of log files and > installing quite a few of the ports collation and useing mysql I question the default values too. They seem oriented too much toward minimum needs rather than typical needs in this day of large cheap disk. ////jerry
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