From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 6:34:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.jad.net (unknown [202.134.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C88614BF3 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 06:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dibyo@bali.net) Received: from home (ppp068.dpr.vidas.telkom.net.id [203.130.255.68]) by server.jad.net (8.8.5/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA12487; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:33:27 +0700 (JAVT) Message-Id: X-Sender: dibyo@bali.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:08:46 +0800 To: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dibyo Gahari Subject: Re: how to change a partition size In-Reply-To: <19990328102707.N53452@lemis.com> References: <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net> <199903261725.AAA18333@server.jad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message