Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 01:02:37 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Murray Taylor" <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <carewm@bytecraft.au.com> Subject: Re: Growing / shrinking a file system Message-ID: <026001c2e46f$28529a00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200303071654.41171.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Murray Taylor" <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <carewm@bytecraft.au.com> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:54 AM Subject: Growing / shrinking a file system > I've found growfs and looked at tunefs--- is there a utility to shrink a > partition so that I can give the space to another one No. > operator@redback(/sbin)ttyp1 > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 97M 41M 48M 46% / > /dev/ad0s1f 17G 1.8G 14G 11% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 19M 7.9M 9.9M 44% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > This is the current disk stats ... NB this disk was setup using auto sizing > from the install CD (poss miscalculation??) Auto-sizing is not perfect for everyone, especially people running large mail servers or database servers which require lots of space in /var. > We need to reallocate space from ad0s1f and give it to ad0s1e > preferably with out rebuilding the machine. > > I am thinking of paxing /var to /usr/var, then unmounting /var > and symlinking /usr/var to /var as an interim step What is your main consumer of space in /var? One trick I've often done is create a /usr/var2 directory, move stuff from /var into /usr/var2 (such as /var/log and /var/mail) and then symlink the directories from /var over to /usr/var2. > But I would like them to remain on separate better sized slices Then your only choice is to backup, re-splice and restore. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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