Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:57:40 -0700 From: "bsdlist" <bsdlist@vampextream.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: resizeing partion Message-ID: <20040610223559.M7099@vampextream.com>
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i have fbsd 4.10 and i need to find out if theres a way to resize a partion and shrink a different one to gain some room .. see what it is is im fairley new to fbsd and i whent with the default err the auto setting for partion sizeing durring sysinstall and now after a few months i found out that one of the partions is to small nameley /var so now i need to find out if theres some way to resize that partion and shrink my main / partion to gain the needed room all with out destroying my files and such that i currentley have install .. IE: nondestructiveley .. thx inadvance for any help on this quistion/issue FreeBSD vampextream.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 3 15:24:56 PDT 2004 root@vampextream.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAMPEXTREAM i386 PS: one of the maintainers that incharge of programming the default disk size should make it bigger IE: 500 - 1gig in size for ppl thats new to fbsd or at least meation some where durring install that /var should be larger insize if you plan on haveing a lot of log files and installing quite a few of the ports collation and useing mysql -- Web mail brought to you by vampextream.com..
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