Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:42:05 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Gerald Lightsey <glightsey1@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT? Message-ID: <20050302154205.GN3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20050302094248.RZTA22013.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@geraldligh> References: <20050228180409.GR10499@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <20050302094248.RZTA22013.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@geraldligh>
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--QQNwO3VdVfodZayb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:42:40AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: > Nathan Kinkade said... > > Here is quick rundown on how you could achieve your goal: > >=20 > > 1) Mount the new disk at at /mnt with something like: > > # mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt > > 2) Copy everything from your original /var partition to the new one: > > # cd /var && tar cf - ./ | (cd /mnt && tar xvpf -) > > 3) Edit /etc/fstab from something like: > > /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs defaults > 1 2 > > to: > > /dev/ad1s1a /var ufs defaults > 1 2 > > 4) Unmount old partition from /var and mount new one at /var: > > # umount /var && mount /var > >=20 > > Also, you may want to reallocate the partition formerly mounted at /var > for something else? >=20 > Your advice was right on thank you very much. Actually step #4 was > automatically handled by step #3. >=20 > Regarding reallocation of space formerly occupied by /var on /dev/ad0s2d,= is > there a way to reallocate it back to one of the other existing partitions= or > do you mean only to use it as is for something else? >=20 > Gerald I was actually suggesting that you could just mount the old partition at another mount point, but I suppose there is the possibility to have the old partition swallowed up by the one directly proceeding it on the physical disk. I have never done it and I don't know anything about it, but there is a utility called growfs(8) that might be of use. Nathan --QQNwO3VdVfodZayb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJd7NO0ZIEthSfkkRAhUrAJ9l7x/NyswiN2NS3vOql99FGUBB0gCbB2Nv iWY5atiBeNEJLVIPsldZNtE= =Yrvp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QQNwO3VdVfodZayb--
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