From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 05:37:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2A216A895 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tspivey@pcdesk.net) Received: from pcdesk.net (ns.pcdesk.net [65.100.173.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A6243D60 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:37:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tspivey@pcdesk.net) Received: from localhost ([::ffff:70.68.51.216]) (AUTH: LOGIN tspivey@pcdesk.net) by pcdesk.net with esmtp; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:37:03 -0600 id 00C0B5E7.44CEE87F.0000675C Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:37:19 -0700 From: Tyler Spivey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060801053719.GA6735@fast> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Subject: switching from linux to freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:37:31 -0000 Hello. I'm interested in moving my server from linux to freeBSD, but have several questions: 1. What is the freebsd equivalent of lvm? I'd like to resize volumes, add/delete volumes, etc. Currently I have my linux root on LVM with ext3 as a filesystem, which I can grow/shrink when I want, if one part runs out of space. Will a shrinkfs command be added to freebsd like growfs is already? 2. Can Ufs handle crashes very well, or is a very long fsck needed like the old ext2 days? 3. is the restriction of NFS-servers only mounting on partition boundaries going to be removed in the future, if it even still exists? Thanks, Tyler