Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:27:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dibyo Gahari <dibyo@bali.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to change a partition size Message-ID: <19990328102707.N53452@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net>; from Dibyo Gahari on Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 01:24:50AM %2B0800 References: <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 27 March 1999 at 1:24:50 +0800, Dibyo Gahari wrote: > > hi, > > i need some information on how to change/add a partition size. > > for example, the result of my free bsd is : > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 31775 27828 1405 95% / > /dev/sd0s2f 2076240 283497 1626644 15% /usr > /dev/sd0s2e 29727 15311 12038 56% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > i need to add the size of /var Why? > my questins are: > 1. without adding a hard drive, i will add /var size by downsizing /usr > size. is it possible ? Yes. > if yes, how to do it ? 1. Make complete, separate backup of the entire file systems /var and /usr. 2. Reinstall the system (yes, this is one of the cases) and select new sizes for /var and /usr. 3. Read in the backups, being careful not to replace /usr/lib/libc.so.*. > 2. by adding a new hard drive, how can i move /var to the new hard drive ? Just create a file system on the drive and call it /var. I always recommend against having a /var file system at all. The situation you find yourself in now is the main reason: it's a real pain to have to resize file systems, and there's no good reason for a /var file system on the same disk as /usr in the first place. I'd recommend: 1. For now, put subdirectories of /var on /usr and use symlinks to point there. 2. In future, don't use /var at all. Make a directory /usr/var and create a symlink from /var to /usr/var. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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