From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 23: 4:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D1637B407 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maile.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5E642b04206 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:04:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22027 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:04:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 23559 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Jun 2001 06:03:39 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:03:39 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Sean Knox Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: modifying partition sizes? Message-ID: <20010614080339.A23540@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Sean Knox , "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" References: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086AF@CQOS1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086AF@CQOS1>; from Sknox@CQOS.COM on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:35:58PM -0700 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 On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:35:58PM -0700, Sean Knox wrote: > I should have been a little clearer: I have unused space on /usr that I want > to allocate to /var. any advice? Backup the full contents of /var and /usr. Change the sizes of the partitions with disklabel or sysinstall. ( Only works if they are adjacent on the disk.) Do a newfs on the partitions. Restore the backups. The backup/restore step is absolutely necessary since changing the size of a partition will lose all information on that partition. If the above does not sound fun (which it shouldn't :-) ) the you might move a directory or two from /var to /usr and put symlinks in its place in /var. > > Sean > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Knox [mailto:Sknox@CQOS.COM] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:17 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: modifying partition sizes? > > > I checked the Handbook for info on this but didn't find what I was looking > for. would someone point me in the right direction on how to do this? tools > and/or howto's? > -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message