Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:49:44 +0800 From: Dibyo Gahari <dibyo@bali.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to change a partition size Message-ID: <Version.32.19990408163842.016f25a0@bali.net> In-Reply-To: <19990329091552.G413@lemis.com> References: <Version.32.19990328205011.00f1c100@bali.net> <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net> <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net> <19990328102707.N53452@lemis.com> <Version.32.19990328205011.00f1c100@bali.net>
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Dear Greg Lehey and Ruslan Ermilov, Thank you for your kind support. And it's great ! I can solve my problem now. Good work, good advice ... :-) Best regards, Dibyo Gahari At 07:45 29/03/99 , Greg Lehey wrote: >On Sunday, 28 March 1999 at 21:08:46 +0800, Dibyo Gahari wrote: >> >> Hi Greg, >> >> Thanks for your kind explanation. >> >> At 08:57 28/03/99 , Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Saturday, 27 March 1999 at 1:24:50 +0800, Dibyo Gahari wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Do you mean: >> >> 1. move/copy subdirectories of /var to new /usr/var >> 2. umount /var (and leave the old /var unmount and unused) >> 3. symlinks /var to /usr/var >> 4. reboot ??? > >Not quite. You can leave some subdirectories of /var where they are. >Otherwise you'll lose that space. > >> If this is what you mean, I think it is easier and better. > >Well, it's easier :-) > >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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