Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:35:55 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980128193555.0071bd70@198.137.186.100> In-Reply-To: <199801280645.BAA00498@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199801280627.RAA23890@mail.mel.aone.net.au>
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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
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