From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 22:57:59 2004 Return-Path: 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 E29BD16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:57:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vampextream.com (wbar8.sea1-4-4-080-017.sea1.dsl-verizon.net [4.4.80.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381A143D39 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:57:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdlist@vampextream.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.vampextream [127.0.0.1]) by vampextream.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE0FE5C for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vampextream.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vampextream.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39656-01 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vampextream.com (localhost.vampextream [127.0.0.1]) by vampextream.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912BB17 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "bsdlist" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:57:40 -0700 Message-Id: <20040610223559.M7099@vampextream.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.32 20040525 X-OriginatingIP: 4.4.80.17 (bsdlist@vampextream.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: resizeing partion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:58:00 -0000 i have fbsd 4.10 and i need to find out if theres a way to resize a partion and shrink a different one to gain some room .. see what it is is im fairley new to fbsd and i whent with the default err the auto setting for partion sizeing durring sysinstall and now after a few months i found out that one of the partions is to small nameley /var so now i need to find out if theres some way to resize that partion and shrink my main / partion to gain the needed room all with out destroying my files and such that i currentley have install .. IE: nondestructiveley .. thx inadvance for any help on this quistion/issue FreeBSD vampextream.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 3 15:24:56 PDT 2004 root@vampextream.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAMPEXTREAM i386 PS: one of the maintainers that incharge of programming the default disk size should make it bigger IE: 500 - 1gig in size for ppl thats new to fbsd or at least meation some where durring install that /var should be larger insize if you plan on haveing a lot of log files and installing quite a few of the ports collation and useing mysql -- Web mail brought to you by vampextream.com..