From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 16 14:37:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 14:37:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop2pub.verizon.net (smtppop2pub.gte.net [206.46.170.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C770A37B400 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:37:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from Ath (cable7-023.gte.net [24.96.36.23]) by smtppop2pub.verizon.net with SMTP for ; id QAA68396343 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:36:20 -0600 (CST) From: "John Bolster" To: Subject: How to move /var directories Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:38:31 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I set up my FBSD 4.1 box with a 20MB /var and 14GB /usr and now I've spent ages configuring everything else- dns, ftpd, httpd, firewall, etc. Now I come to use it as a mail server for over 100 people, I've realized that /var needed to be much bigger and I'll probably never have much use for all the /usr space. I've read that there is no Partition Magic type program for FBSD, so I assume I'll have to move /var/mail and /var/ftp somewhere else where there is more room. Can anyone tell me if this is the best way to deal with this, if there is a better idea, and (ideally) how to do it? Thanks for your help, John Bolster To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message