From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 28 17:40:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13328 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA13278 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mountin.man@mixcom.com) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id TAA03215; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:41:41 -0600 Received: from dial193-15.mixcom.com(207.250.193.15) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma003196; Wed Jan 28 19:41:15 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980128193555.0071bd70@198.137.186.100> X-Sender: mmttnn@198.137.186.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:35:55 -0600 To: "John S. Dyson" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801280645.BAA00498@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199801280627.RAA23890@mail.mel.aone.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:45 AM 1/28/98 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >Norman Hoy said: >> >> Yes but the problem that I have with putting any highly >> variable file system on a partition is the inability >> of UFS to expand. Once the system out grows >> your "allowance" you must then rebuild your hdd. >> >I don't think that it would be extremely difficult to >expand an unmounted FFS filesystem. Could be wrong though, >and there may be some limitations. Touchy thing. Not sure I would like to edit the disklabel to expand, but it could be done (tried for fun once). Just not sure if inodes would then become a problem, so wouldn't advise this for a production server. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking mountin.man@mixcom.com