Resizing FreeBSD slices

Yani Karydis yani at panoramic-imaging.com
Tue Mar 30 09:15:12 BST 2004


>On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:21:20PM +0100, Yani Karydis wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Does anybody know if Partition Magic (floppy disk boot) can recognise 
>> and resize UFS partitions? Or any other tool can effectively 
>> reallocate space between slices (without having to dump the slices and 
>> reinstall the OS)?
>
>I don't know but growfs(8) exists which I've never used.
>
>> 
>> I'm running a FreeBSD 5.2 mail server and as a newbie managed to 
>> create a very small /var slice which is running out of space fast!
>
>What you could do is move /var to a slice that has more space. E.g:
>
># mkdir /usr/var
># cd /var
># tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - )
># cd /
># rm -rf /var
># ln -s /usr/var /var
>
>That assumes /usr has plenty of space. This would best be done when not
much writing is being done to /var as anything written between step 3 & 6
will be >lost.

Thanks,

I've got acres of space on the /usr slice, I'll move /var in there. 
I just followed sysintall's recommendations without thinking the
consequences!

>
>Or alternatively create another slice if there's room on your HD.
>
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