From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 23:48:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B8116A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:48:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB5743D2F for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:48:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i5ANlqT18901; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:47:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200406102347.i5ANlqT18901@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bsdlist@vampextream.com (bsdlist) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:47:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20040610223559.M7099@vampextream.com> from "bsdlist" at Jun 10, 2004 03:57:40 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resizeing partion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:48:10 -0000 > > 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 .. Your best bet is to abck up everything and remake the whole disk layout and then restore things. You will either need an additional disk or to do a new install on the one you have. Especially since you want to shrink something at the beginning of the disk, it isn't dooable on the fly. > 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 I question the default values too. They seem oriented too much toward minimum needs rather than typical needs in this day of large cheap disk. ////jerry