From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 13:54:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA22128 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:54:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tigger.jvnc.net (tigger.jvnc.net [128.121.50.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA22103 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vikas@navya.com) Received: from navya.com (xserv.jvnc.net [128.121.60.6]) by tigger.jvnc.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA24780 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 16:53:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <349AECD1.72BA5A25@navya.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 16:53:22 -0500 From: Vikas Aggarwal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Increasing space for /etc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need to increase the size of my root partition (currently 15MB) to about 50MB since I have about 5000 users and rebuilding the password hash database fills up the partition. Any easy way to do this ? Can I mount another partition onto /etc ? Will it mess things up ? Does the kernel mount /etc from fstab as soon as it boots ? -vikas vikas@navya.com