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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:20:46 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it>
Cc: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>,
        Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:28:25PM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Gordon Wang wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Sir
>>> I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user.
>>> My /root space is 32M.
>>> What should I do  if I want to make 1t 64M.
>>
>> This is not as easy as it sounds.  You can't resize a partition without
>> destroying it. You have to back up the system, rewrite the disklabel,
>> newfs the new partitions, then restore the data to the new partitions.
>> Basically, reformat the disk.
>>
> Alternatively; you can check what it is that requires size; if it is
> for example just the '/root' home directory of the 'root' user; you
> could just move it to /usr/home and modify the /etc/passd file.

I fear that this could cause serious problems, though I can't say
which.  It might be more interesting to use symbolic links for other
things.  I suppose we should ask Gordon why he wants 64 MB: 32 should
be enough.  In particular, you can run into space problems if you have
/var on the root file system.  If this is the problem, you should
create a directory /usr/var and a symbolic link /var to it:

  # mkdir /usr/var
  # mv /var /VAR
  # ln -s /usr/var /var
  # cd /VAR
  # cp -p * /var
  # cd /
  # rm -rf /VAR

This will move the contents across to the new /var.  You'll need to
restart syslogd.

Greg