On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Hello, I've got a 5.3-RELEASE box which has a /usr partition /dev/ad0s1e that is to small by approximately 700 mb. I've got the space on /var /dev/ad0s1d to do a resize, but i am unsure as to the procedure. I tried this once a while back on a test box and lost everything. If anyone has done this or has a procedure i'd be interested.
Instead of actually resizing the partition, you can just move some of the stuff to a partition where you have plenty of room and then make sym-links to it. /usr/local and /usr/ports are good candidates. Tar the whole directory tree up and put it where you want and untar it. Then make links and rm the old one.
Probably worth making sure you add the 'pS' options to tar as well...
-p --same-permissions --preserve-permissions Extract all protection information.
-S --sparse Handle ``sparse'' files efficiently.
I find whenever I do something like this and forget those -- particularly -p -- I end up regretting it when users whine at me because they can't write to their files :-)
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