On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:28:55 -0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2019-11-17, Lev Lazinskiy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something > > obvious. > > > > I recently installed openBSD on a server using the auto-partition > > layout during installation and am quickly starting to run out of > > disk space. > > > > I have read the section in the FAQ [1] regarding how to grow a disk > > partition, but I am confused on the best way to actually do this. > > > > Specifically, I am trying to grow /usr and /home but they are "busy" > > when I try to follow these steps on a running server. > > > > Is the assumption that you are supposed to reboot the server with > > the ISO attached and pop into a shell to complete these steps? > > > > [1] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#GrowPartition > > > > This faq entry tells you to use growfs, which won't work for /usr > from a standard auto-defaults install because it requires empty space > immediately following the partition to grow into. > > On a larger disk it often will work for /home because auto-defaults > place it at the end of the disk, size it at max 300G, and leave the > space following it empty. > > Sometimes you can shunt things around - if you have free space at the > end of the disk you can move files from the filesystem immediately > following /usr there, and growfs into the now-vacated space - > sometimes you have another partition that is A) larger than /usr and > B) that is larger than you need, in which case you copy files so you > can swap them around. Or again if you have free space at the end of > the disk, after what you'd want to grow /home into, you can make a > new partition there, copy the files, and leave the former /usr > partition empty. But it's quite delicate work and is often easier to > reinstall. In OpenBSD is there such a thing as a bind mount like they have in Linux? SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr
