Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:08:06 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Changing partitions or slices Message-ID: <XFMail.991220090806.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <385D14F4.1CE3CD91@twave.net>
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On 19-Dec-99 Walter Brameld wrote: > I have been using FreeBSD now for about a month, my first > experience with a Unixish system in 25 years. When I installed, I used > the defaults for the slice sizes of my file system. My problem is, the > / directory keeps filling up, so now I would like to change the size > of the slices. > > My questions are as follow: Is it possible to make a backup of the > system, change the slices, then do a restore to the original system > state? If so, what would be the procedure? In my reading, (Boy, > learning all this new stuff can give an old man a headache!), I have > come away with the impression that the procedure would involve doing a > dump, disklabel, newfs, then restore. Is this the acceptable method? > If not, is there a better one? > > Thanking all of you in advance, > > Walter Brameld I imagine that would work (level zero dumps, though!). However, I believe that you first should analyze why your / fills up. When I started this a couple of years ago I used /root just as any other account, and since it is located in /, the latter filled up. Remedy was to keep next to nothing in /root, but use the toor account for storage, where toor lives in /home/toor. Another early incident made me use symlinks for /var and /tmp, they are now on my /usr partition. Having a small /var gave printing problems when the spool file was too large and a small /tmp filled up during /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb, which is run on a weekly basis. So, in toto, I think you are better off not reinstalling. Though reinstalls make you understand some aspects of the install procedure - which could be nice to know... /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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