From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 4 7:36:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1C437BA37 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 07:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (postfix@genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA77991; Thu, 4 May 2000 15:33:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3796E326; Thu, 4 May 2000 15:33:30 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:33:30 +0100 From: Joe Karthauser To: Nils Holland Cc: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) Message-ID: <20000504153330.L8875@pavilion.net> References: <4.2.2.20000503225125.04551218@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from nils@nightcastleproductions.org on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:00:49PM +0200 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:00:49PM +0200, Nils Holland wrote: > > Having read this, I wonder how I can change the size of / without having > to re-install the whole system. Currently I'm using the default size > FreeBSD has choosen for /, but what do I do if the default size should > some day turn out to be too small, I think a re-installation is required > then, isn't it? I also think that the FreeBSD installation program should > should rather create a bigger than a too small / by default. Many users, > especially those installing FreeBSD for the first time, cannot forsee the > size they could need in the future and so they decide to let FreeBSD set > the size of the slices since they think that's the safest bet. These users > will get pretty mad when they note that after some time they get serious > problems with the size of their root partition. There's work in progress to provide partition resizing tools with FreeBSD. Don't hold your breath though, there's still quite a few months work left to do. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message