Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:15:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dibyo Gahari <dibyo@bali.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to change a partition size Message-ID: <19990329091552.G413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Version.32.19990328205011.00f1c100@bali.net>; from Dibyo Gahari on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:08:46PM %2B0800 References: <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net> <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net> <19990328102707.N53452@lemis.com> <Version.32.19990328205011.00f1c100@bali.net>
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On Sunday, 28 March 1999 at 21:08:46 +0800, Dibyo Gahari wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for your kind explanation. > > At 08:57 28/03/99 , Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 27 March 1999 at 1:24:50 +0800, Dibyo Gahari wrote: >> I always recommend against having a /var file system at all. The >> situation you find yourself in now is the main reason: it's a real >> pain to have to resize file systems, and there's no good reason for a >> /var file system on the same disk as /usr in the first place. I'd >> recommend: >> >> 1. For now, put subdirectories of /var on /usr and use symlinks to >> point there. > > Do you mean: > > 1. move/copy subdirectories of /var to new /usr/var > 2. umount /var (and leave the old /var unmount and unused) > 3. symlinks /var to /usr/var > 4. reboot ??? Not quite. You can leave some subdirectories of /var where they are. Otherwise you'll lose that space. > If this is what you mean, I think it is easier and better. Well, it's easier :-) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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