From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 8:31:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.sit.edu.my (saturn.sit.edu.my [202.184.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10B737B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Lim.Seng.Chor@sit.edu.my) Received: from LION (pmail.sit.edu.my [202.184.64.6]) by saturn.sit.edu.my (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4NFav500387 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:36:58 +0800 Received: from LION/SpoolDir by LION (Mercury 1.47); 23 May 01 23:45:04 +0800 Received: from SpoolDir by LION (Mercury 1.47); 23 May 01 23:45:00 +0800 From: "Lim Seng Chor" Organization: Sepang Institute of Technology To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:44:51 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: resize partition Message-ID: <3B0C48E3.21794.BEA4166@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! My partitions layout is like the following: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s2a 99183 37510 53739 41% / /dev/da0s2e 4465853 4257 4104328 0% /cache1 /dev/da1s1e 8609716 544466 7376473 7% /cache2 /dev/da2s1e 8609716 544417 7376522 7% /cache3 /dev/da0s2g 2943741 637896 2070346 24% /usr /dev/da0s2f 49583 2576 43041 6% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc if, let say, I want to unmount the /var and would like to split into 2 partitions, and mount them as /var and /var/secure, and then mark /var/secure as read-only partition, without going thru the upgrade process and destroy the /var contents, what should I do? Please guide me. Thank you very much. From Joe/MIS/SIT ---------------------------------------------------------- Lim Seng Chor, Joe MCP,MCP+I,MCSE,MCSE+I,MCDBA,CCNA MIS Senior Executive System/Network Administrator Sepang Institute of Technology Tel: (+603) 33430628 (extension: 270) Fax: (+603) 33430240 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message