From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 18:05:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F26B16A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:05:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from public.comradeburnout.com (net-6621941-196.customer.corenap.com [66.219.41.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DCF43D2F for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geektron@comradeburnout.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (rrcs-sw-24-173-210-82.biz.rr.com [24.173.210.82]) by public.comradeburnout.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE346110 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:14:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <41112315.4070509@comradeburnout.com> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:55:33 -0500 From: Comrade Burnout User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200408041749.i74HnNR03313@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200408041749.i74HnNR03313@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: softupdates, adding space to partitions, etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:05:08 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: I just noticed that I didn't create *quite* enough space in my /var partition for accepting somewhat larger email attachments/ messages. i thought softupdates was the way to go, but on reading the handbook online, that's not quite what i thought it was .... is there any way with 5.2.1 to move around disc space between partitions "on the fly" ? Well, mostly no, but if you happen to have left some unused space contiguous to the partition you have mounted as /var, then you can try using growfs(8) i don't think i left any unused space sitting around, so it doesn't look like growfs is going to be an option. But, really, you should either move some stuff from /var, such as /var/spool in to some larger space and make a symlink to it or just start over with partition sizes rethought out according to your more recent experience of your usage patterns. not an option right now. i didn't think my partitions through all the way .... /var is the only problem one. If you have some large partition sitting there with lots of space, it is easy to move some stuf in to it and make the links. I commonly move /var/spool and /var/log somewhere else because they are the most likely to grow uncontrollably or unexpectedly. I usually make reasonable sized partitions for /, /tmp, /usr and /var and then one big one to hold all the stuff whose size can't be easily guessed (which I usually call either home or work). i'm more than familiar with doing it the 'traditional' way -- creating a new dir, say /opt/sysmail/mail and symlinking it to /var/spool/mail. i was hoping there was another way to do it.