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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:15:52 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Dibyo Gahari <dibyo@bali.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to change a partition size
Message-ID:  <19990329091552.G413@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Version.32.19990328205011.00f1c100@bali.net>; from Dibyo Gahari on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:08:46PM %2B0800
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On Sunday, 28 March 1999 at 21:08:46 +0800, Dibyo Gahari wrote:
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for your kind explanation.
>
> At 08:57 28/03/99 , Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 March 1999 at  1:24:50 +0800, Dibyo Gahari wrote:
>> I always recommend against having a /var file system at all.  The
>> situation you find yourself in now is the main reason: it's a real
>> pain to have to resize file systems, and there's no good reason for a
>> /var file system on the same disk as /usr in the first place.  I'd
>> recommend:
>>
>> 1.  For now, put subdirectories of /var on /usr and use symlinks to
>>    point there.
>
> Do you mean:
>
> 1. move/copy subdirectories of  /var to new /usr/var
> 2. umount /var  (and leave the old /var unmount and unused)
> 3. symlinks /var to /usr/var
> 4. reboot ???

Not quite.  You can leave some subdirectories of /var where they are.
Otherwise you'll lose that space.

> If this is what you mean, I think it is easier and better.

Well, it's easier :-)

Greg
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