From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 20:13:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28570 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA02913; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:42:51 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA03989; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:42:50 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981018124250.Y435@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:42:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Richard Secor , Loren Koss , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Run out of space on /VAR References: <008001bdfa3a$25d7f8c0$0300000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <008001bdfa3a$25d7f8c0$0300000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com>; from Richard Secor on Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:53:47PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Saturday, 17 October 1998 at 21:53:47 -0400, Richard Secor wrote: > From: Loren Koss >> >> I have plenty of space on /usr (about 700 megs) and I want to give >> about 50 megs to /var, is it possible without losing anything? > > Answer is NO, FreeBSD doesn't (as far as I know) have this option (yet). Please limit your lines to < 80 characters. > I know that IBM's AIX, HPs HP/UX, and I think Sun's Solaris support > Logical Volumes.... which are pretty interesting...you can increase > their size, but you can't decrease it. Vinum does this for FreeBSD. Check out http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details. It's part of 3.0-RELEASE. Greg -- 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