Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:59:25 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com> To: Marc Fonvieille <fonvi@easynet.fr> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can i grow any partitions with growfs(8) ? Message-ID: <20010812085924.A56780@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20010812114737.A36490@gothic.blackend.org>; from fonvi@easynet.fr on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:47:37AM %2B0200 References: <20010812114737.A36490@gothic.blackend.org>
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:47:37AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille thus sprach: > I used growfs(8) to grow the last partition (f which is used by > /usr) on a slice and all is running fine. Now i want to grow /var > which is the e partition, is it possible? I wonder if i have to > "play" with /usr offset in the disklabel or growfs(8) does it for > me? A workaround is to take the directory that is using most of you data in /var and just symlink that to a directory on another partition. I've never made /var much bigger than 100M and on large installs where mail like to go to /var/mail, that just a link to /usr/mail. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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