Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:18:57 -0700 From: Sean Knox <Sknox@CQOS.COM> To: 'Erik Trulsson' <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Sean Knox <Sknox@CQOS.COM> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: modifying partition sizes? Message-ID: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086B0@CQOS1>
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as much as I tempted to simply create a symlink as both Jason and you suggest, I think this will be a good exercise for me. :-) So if I were to follow your first solution: (the partitions are adjacent) 1. in /dir: tar cvfR usr.tar * tar cvfR var.tar * 2. (backed up to another machine) 3. /stand/sysinstall to resize partitions. ** see below 4. untar var.tar in /var and usr.tar into /usr look good? In sysinstall, am I able to directly resize partitions, or do I need to delete the partition(s) and recreate them with the proper size? * on a side note, how do I exclude directories when creating a tar? I tried "tar cvfRX ./baddir file.tar *" and "tar cvfR -X ./baddir file.tar *" but those didn't work. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Erik Trulsson [mailto:ertr1013@student.uu.se] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:04 PM To: Sean Knox Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) Subject: Re: modifying partition sizes? 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? > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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