Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:39:08 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing size of a partition Message-ID: <b7052e1e05081503392ba43de1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c5a10e$48cbff70$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <000501c5a10e$48cbff70$0200a8c0@satellite>
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On 8/15/05, dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> wrote: > Hello, > I've got a 5.4-release box that is in need of some partition maintenc= e. > It's using raid1 procedure1 from Mr. Ralf S. Engelschall's site: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > I haven't been able to get procedure2 to boot, i keep getting an error on > boot that the kernel is not found. This is worrysome because the two driv= es > are not identical in size, they're close, and usually unless the partitio= ns > are filling up i don't worry about it. Lately /var has been filling up, w= hen > this box was installed space requirements were not estimated to be like t= hey > are now. I've got a single slice covering the entire drive and four > partitions, /, /usr, /var, and /home which is last on the drive because i= t > takes up the most space. Now i need to increase the size of /var probably > taking space away from /home, does anyone have a procedure for doing this > keeping in mind that geom mirror raid1 is going on? Not exactly an answer to your question, but you can probably just create symlinks for big subdirectories in /var in, for example, /home. --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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