From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 07:03:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14684 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14679 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA06256; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:03:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:03:04 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: "Long, Christopher" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Relabeling Partitions In-Reply-To: <8948DD9B2EDCD111B49500805FA78373126BE8@1upmc-msx2.isdbu.upmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA14680 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! > Is it possible to relabel partions in 2.2.8 without losing data? I want to > increase my /var and /swap partitions, with extra space from my /usr > partition. Is this possible, with no loss of data? No, it isn't. You could use an additional swap file (see FAQ) in /usr to increase paging space, and you could move a subdirectory tree from /var to /usr and then create a symbolic link back from /usr to /var to make better use of your disk space. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message