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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:23:15 +1000 (EST)
From:      Jason Oakley <waulok@bangrocks.com>
To:        Sean Knox <Sknox@CQOS.COM>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: modifying partition sizes?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106141622400.78226-100000@snsonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086B0@CQOS1>
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Long way round.. yer.
You will need to delete old partitions and install new ones.
No time to look up tar switches tho ;)


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Sean Knox wrote:

]:as much as I tempted to simply create a symlink as both Jason and you
]:suggest, I think this will be a good exercise for me. :-)
]:
]:So if I were to follow your first solution: (the partitions are adjacent)
]:
]:1. in /dir:
]:	tar cvfR usr.tar *
]:	tar cvfR var.tar *
]:
]:2. (backed up to another machine)
]:3. /stand/sysinstall to resize partitions. ** see below
]:4. untar var.tar in /var and usr.tar into /usr
]:
]:look good?
]:
]:In sysinstall, am I able to directly resize partitions, or do I need to
]:delete the partition(s) and recreate them with the proper size?
]:
]:* on a side note, how do I exclude directories when creating a tar? I tried
]:"tar cvfRX ./baddir file.tar *" and "tar cvfR -X ./baddir file.tar *" but
]:those didn't work.
]:
]:Sean
]:
]:-----Original Message-----
]:From: Erik Trulsson [mailto:ertr1013@student.uu.se]
]:Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:04 PM
]:To: Sean Knox
]:Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
]:Subject: Re: modifying partition sizes?
]:
]:
]:On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:35:58PM -0700, Sean Knox wrote:
]:> I should have been a little clearer: I have unused space on /usr that I
]:want
]:> to allocate to /var. any advice?
]:
]:Backup the full contents of /var and /usr.
]:Change the sizes of the partitions with disklabel or sysinstall. ( Only
]:works if they are adjacent on the disk.) Do a newfs on the partitions.
]:Restore the backups.
]:
]:The backup/restore step is absolutely necessary since changing the size
]:of a partition will lose all information on that partition.
]:
]:If the above does not sound fun (which it shouldn't :-) ) the you might move
]:a directory or two from /var to /usr and put symlinks in its place in
]:/var.
]:
]:> 
]:> Sean
]:> -----Original Message-----
]:> From: Sean Knox [mailto:Sknox@CQOS.COM]
]:> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:17 PM
]:> To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
]:> Subject: modifying partition sizes?
]:> 
]:> 
]:> I checked the Handbook for info on this but didn't find what I was looking
]:> for. would someone point me in the right direction on how to do this?
]:tools
]:> and/or howto's? 
]:> 
]:
]:-- 
]:<Insert your favourite quote here.>
]:Erik Trulsson
]:ertr1013@student.uu.se
]:
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