From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 15: 1:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C087214EAE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.24] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ea480276 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:01:18 -0500 Message-ID: <385EB58B.68563506@twave.net> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:02:35 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micke Josefsson Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Changing partitions or slices References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micke Josefsson wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------- Yeah, I learned some of the "How not to's". I haven't gotten a handle on symlinks yet. That's what caused me to trash my system. Guess I linked in the wrong direction, as some of my files seemed to simply disappear. Oh well. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message