From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 2: 4:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDD5114BEF for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 87706 invoked by uid 1003); 9 Mar 1999 12:04:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:04:34 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Tibor Borzak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PArtitions Message-ID: <19990309120434.A86491@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19990309094516.14241.rocketmail@send501.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990309094516.14241.rocketmail@send501.yahoomail.com>; from Tibor Borzak on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 01:45:16AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 1999-03-09 (01:45), Tibor Borzak wrote: > A question from a NewBie : > > I installed FreeBSD 2.2.8. on my system. > I had make a mistake at the begining, because my /var partition it > seems to be too small (around 150 MB). How can I "stollen" some space > from the other to partition (/usr and /), without damaging the data > (currently this BSD is the primary DNS and SMTP server !!!) 150 Mb should be big enough for most peoples' /var. You can't really play with the partition sizes, so you have three choices: 1. Wipe everything and start again. 2. Add a new drive and mount it in the part of /var that is so huge. 3. Use a symbolic link to link /var/foo to /usr/foo, where foo is the part of /var which is too big. I'd choose 3, most probably. "man ln" for more help Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message