Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:03:39 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Sean Knox <Sknox@CQOS.COM> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: modifying partition sizes? Message-ID: <20010614080339.A23540@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086AF@CQOS1>; from Sknox@CQOS.COM on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:35:58PM -0700 References: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086AF@CQOS1>
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:35:58PM -0700, Sean Knox wrote: > I should have been a little clearer: I have unused space on /usr that I want > to allocate to /var. any advice? Backup the full contents of /var and /usr. Change the sizes of the partitions with disklabel or sysinstall. ( Only works if they are adjacent on the disk.) Do a newfs on the partitions. Restore the backups. The backup/restore step is absolutely necessary since changing the size of a partition will lose all information on that partition. If the above does not sound fun (which it shouldn't :-) ) the you might move a directory or two from /var to /usr and put symlinks in its place in /var. > > Sean > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Knox [mailto:Sknox@CQOS.COM] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:17 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: modifying partition sizes? > > > I checked the Handbook for info on this but didn't find what I was looking > for. would someone point me in the right direction on how to do this? tools > and/or howto's? > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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