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Subject: Re: pwd.db too big for / partition
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Chuck Swiger writes:

>  However, in theory, if you had free disk space, you could use
>  growfs to expand the root partition without repartitioning, but I
>  am dubious about using that command against /.

	Certainly, the consequences if Something Went Horribly Wrong(tm)
would be quite painful.


				Robert Huff