Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:05:40 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it>, Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <19980115210540.45579@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <19980115102046.43283@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:20:46AM %2B1030 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112214601.22079L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980114151025.8962W-100000@elect6.jrc.it> <19980115102046.43283@lemis.com>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:20:46AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:28:25PM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Gordon Wang wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Sir
> >>> I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user.
> >>> My /root space is 32M.
> >>> What should I do if I want to make 1t 64M.
> >>
> >> This is not as easy as it sounds. You can't resize a partition without
> >> destroying it. You have to back up the system, rewrite the disklabel,
> >> newfs the new partitions, then restore the data to the new partitions.
> >> Basically, reformat the disk.
> >>
> > Alternatively; you can check what it is that requires size; if it is
> > for example just the '/root' home directory of the 'root' user; you
> > could just move it to /usr/home and modify the /etc/passd file.
>
> I fear that this could cause serious problems, though I can't say
> which. It might be more interesting to use symbolic links for other
> things. I suppose we should ask Gordon why he wants 64 MB: 32 should
> be enough. In particular, you can run into space problems if you have
> /var on the root file system. If this is the problem, you should
> create a directory /usr/var and a symbolic link /var to it:
>
> # mkdir /usr/var
> # mv /var /VAR
> # ln -s /usr/var /var
> # cd /VAR
> # cp -p * /var
^^
Perhaps
# cp -Rp * /var
would be appropriate to ensure subdirectories are copied.
> # cd /
> # rm -rf /VAR
>
> This will move the contents across to the new /var. You'll need to
> restart syslogd.
>
> Greg
>
--
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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