From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 0: 8:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D02152FC for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA05853; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:08:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <385D14F4.1CE3CD91@twave.net> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:08:06 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Walter Brameld Subject: RE: Changing partitions or slices Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Dec-99 Walter Brameld wrote: > I have been using FreeBSD now for about a month, my first > experience with a Unixish system in 25 years. When I installed, I used > the defaults for the slice sizes of my file system. My problem is, the > / directory keeps filling up, so now I would like to change the size > of the slices. > > My questions are as follow: Is it possible to make a backup of the > system, change the slices, then do a restore to the original system > state? If so, what would be the procedure? In my reading, (Boy, > learning all this new stuff can give an old man a headache!), I have > come away with the impression that the procedure would involve doing a > dump, disklabel, newfs, then restore. Is this the acceptable method? > If not, is there a better one? > > Thanking all of you in advance, > > Walter Brameld I imagine that would work (level zero dumps, though!). However, I believe that you first should analyze why your / fills up. When I started this a couple of years ago I used /root just as any other account, and since it is located in /, the latter filled up. Remedy was to keep next to nothing in /root, but use the toor account for storage, where toor lives in /home/toor. Another early incident made me use symlinks for /var and /tmp, they are now on my /usr partition. Having a small /var gave printing problems when the spool file was too large and a small /tmp filled up during /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb, which is run on a weekly basis. So, in toto, I think you are better off not reinstalling. Though reinstalls make you understand some aspects of the install procedure - which could be nice to know... /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message