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Date:      Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:08:46 +0800
From:      Dibyo Gahari <dibyo@bali.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to change a partition size
Message-ID:  <Version.32.19990328205011.00f1c100@bali.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990328102707.N53452@lemis.com>
References:  <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net> <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net>

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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 need to add the size of /var

>Why?

Because the growing mail accounts I have to add.

>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 ???

If this is what you mean, I think it is easier and better.

>2.  In future, don't use /var at all.  Make a directory /usr/var and
>    create a symlink from /var to /usr/var.

I will do it for my next installation.

>Greg

Thank you.
Regards,
Dibyo Gahari



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