From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 15 10:39:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 136CC16A41F for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:39:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7402343D49 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:39:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so922383wra for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DbVpI3KvjAmQKYL4uv3A6omxDlTcZ7NxXuMspMgNhTGCPglSlxtYEddoMXeaw0ztGmRLyXO4QTWqMLbiuqENEd+44mBBUrugtB/ME5N551ZZNoRP82kDn8yKXLS7qdaonazO4h70QrIwkK+CeO0/TN1r+y0J+U7B2U+43tQy+Pw= Received: by 10.54.43.48 with SMTP id q48mr3553127wrq; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.33 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:39:08 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov To: dave In-Reply-To: <000501c5a10e$48cbff70$0200a8c0@satellite> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <000501c5a10e$48cbff70$0200a8c0@satellite> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing size of a partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:39:13 -0000 On 8/15/05, dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got a 5.4-release box that is in need of some partition maintenc= e. > It's using raid1 procedure1 from Mr. Ralf S. Engelschall's site: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > I haven't been able to get procedure2 to boot, i keep getting an error on > boot that the kernel is not found. This is worrysome because the two driv= es > are not identical in size, they're close, and usually unless the partitio= ns > are filling up i don't worry about it. Lately /var has been filling up, w= hen > this box was installed space requirements were not estimated to be like t= hey > are now. I've got a single slice covering the entire drive and four > partitions, /, /usr, /var, and /home which is last on the drive because i= t > takes up the most space. Now i need to increase the size of /var probably > taking space away from /home, does anyone have a procedure for doing this > keeping in mind that geom mirror raid1 is going on? Not exactly an answer to your question, but you can probably just create symlinks for big subdirectories in /var in, for example, /home. --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"