From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Aug 12 5:59:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-132.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FFA37B407 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7CCxPF56823; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:59:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:59:25 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: Marc Fonvieille Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can i grow any partitions with growfs(8) ? Message-ID: <20010812085924.A56780@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <20010812114737.A36490@gothic.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010812114737.A36490@gothic.blackend.org>; from fonvi@easynet.fr on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:47:37AM +0200 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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