Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:20:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <19980115102046.43283@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980114151025.8962W-100000@elect6.jrc.it>; from Dirk-Willem van Gulik on Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:28:25PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112214601.22079L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980114151025.8962W-100000@elect6.jrc.it>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:28:25PM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > >> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Gordon Wang wrote: >> >>> Dear Sir >>> I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user. >>> My /root space is 32M. >>> What should I do if I want to make 1t 64M. >> >> This is not as easy as it sounds. You can't resize a partition without >> destroying it. You have to back up the system, rewrite the disklabel, >> newfs the new partitions, then restore the data to the new partitions. >> Basically, reformat the disk. >> > Alternatively; you can check what it is that requires size; if it is > for example just the '/root' home directory of the 'root' user; you > could just move it to /usr/home and modify the /etc/passd file. I fear that this could cause serious problems, though I can't say which. It might be more interesting to use symbolic links for other things. I suppose we should ask Gordon why he wants 64 MB: 32 should be enough. In particular, you can run into space problems if you have /var on the root file system. If this is the problem, you should create a directory /usr/var and a symbolic link /var to it: # mkdir /usr/var # mv /var /VAR # ln -s /usr/var /var # cd /VAR # cp -p * /var # cd / # rm -rf /VAR This will move the contents across to the new /var. You'll need to restart syslogd. Greg
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