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jmcab wrote:
>
> I have freebsd 2.2.1 on an old 386 w/ 85m harddrive. Everything works
> but I am running out of space. The drive looks like this:
> /       19487 blocks 13201 used
> /usr    43087 blocks 39622 used
> /var    4118  blocks   644 used
> I also have 16m for swap ( my system has 8megs ram)
> Can I re-partition the drive by using /stand/sysinstall without using data?
> If so , can I cut /root to 15m & cut /var to 2m? Also would it be ok to
> cut the swap space? (how much?) BTW, in my ist question, i mean w/o losing
> data.
> 
> Thanks,

i don't think so.  changing partition size means 
destroying old ones and creating new ones.  but i think
your sizes are ok - as long as you keep your logs cut down
to size and delete some excess junk in your usr partition.