Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:36:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.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: <19980116123649.19662@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980115210540.45579@emu.sourcee.com>; from Norman C Rice on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 09:05:40PM -0500 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> <19980115210540.45579@emu.sourcee.com>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 09:05:40PM -0500, Norman C Rice wrote: > 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. Oops. Yes, very important. Greg
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