How can I repartition my drive?
Hello, How can I repartition my drive? I already have the hd dedicated for FreeBSD and 6.2-RC1 is installed. Is there away to make /var ..etc without reinstalling the OS? Thank you, Abdullah Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I repartition my drive?
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:33:54AM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: Hello, How can I repartition my drive? I already have the hd dedicated for FreeBSD and 6.2-RC1 is installed. Is there away to make /var ..etc without reinstalling the OS? Well, I don't know what you mean by making /var ..etc, but there are things to do if you need to move some things to shift them to where there is more space. For this you do not repartition, but just move certain directory trees and then make symbolic links. Here is an example. Let's say you have a typical setup with one large /home file system that has lots of spare space, but you have begun to fill /var because you have lots of stuff in /var/log and /var/spool. So, you want to move the contents of /var/log and /var/spool in to the /home space where they have room to grow. Do something like this: (While logged in as root - or booted to single user [preferred]) cd /var/log tar cvpf /home/log.tar * cd /var/spool tar cvpf /home/spool.tar * cd /home mkdir var.log mkdir var.spool cd var.log tar xvf ../log.tar cd ../var.spool tar xvf ../spool.tar cd /var mv log log-old ln -s /home/var.log log mv spool spool-old ln -s /home/var.spool spool Now, just check things out to make sure it is all OK. cd /var/log pwd (should display /home/var.log) ls (should have the right stuff for log in it) cd /var/spool pwd (should display /home/var.spool) ls (should have the right stuff for spool in it) If all is well, clean up. cd /var rm -rf log-old rm -fr spool-old cd /home rm log.tar rm spool.tar That will leave space in /var and give log and spool to work The same type of thing can be done with other directories in overloaded file systems if you have room for them elsewhere. Just don't do it for some things like /etc or /sbin that need to stay in root. There is something called growfs, but it is only useful if you have empty unallocated space right next to the partition you want to expand. That is rarely the case. Most people put one partition right after the other without leaving wasted space in between. There are also some other utilities that claim to be able to mush FreeBSD (as well as other types) partitions around, but I have not heard much about them. Most disk partition management utilities actually work on Microsoft partitions which are what FreeBSD calls slices. They do not know anything about FreeBSD partitions - which are actually subdivisions of slices. So, if you do not have the room to do the move and symlink process I describe above, then, you are probably needing to look at buying larger disk. Happy disk management, jerry Thank you, Abdullah Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I repartition my drive?
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:33:54AM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
Hello,
How can I repartition my drive? I already have the hd dedicated for
FreeBSD and 6.2-RC1 is installed.
Is there away to make /var ..etc without reinstalling the OS?
Well, I don't know what you mean by making /var ..etc, but there
are things to do if you need to move some things to shift them
to where there is more space. For this you do not repartition,
but just move certain directory trees and then make symbolic links.
Here is an example. Let's say you have a typical setup with one
large /home file system that has lots of spare space, but you have
begun to fill /var because you have lots of stuff in /var/log and /var/spool.
So, you want to move the contents of /var/log and /var/spool in to
the /home space where they have room to grow. Do something like this:
(While logged in as root - or booted to single user [preferred])
cd /var/log
tar cvpf /home/log.tar *
cd /var/spool
tar cvpf /home/spool.tar *
cd /home
mkdir var.log
mkdir var.spool
cd var.log
tar xvf ../log.tar
cd ../var.spool
tar xvf ../spool.tar
cd /var
mv log log-old
ln -s /home/var.log log
mv spool spool-old
ln -s /home/var.spool spool
Now, just check things out to make sure it is all OK.
cd /var/log
pwd (should display /home/var.log)
ls (should have the right stuff for log in it)
cd /var/spool
pwd (should display /home/var.spool)
ls (should have the right stuff for spool in it)
If all is well, clean up.
cd /var
rm -rf log-old
rm -fr spool-old
cd /home
rm log.tar
rm spool.tar
That will leave space in /var and give log and spool to work
The same type of thing can be done with other directories in overloaded
file systems if you have room for them elsewhere. Just don't do it for
some things like /etc or /sbin that need to stay in root.
There is something called growfs, but it is only useful if you have
empty unallocated space right next to the partition you want to expand.
That is rarely the case. Most people put one partition right after
the other without leaving wasted space in between.
There are also some other utilities that claim to be able to mush FreeBSD
(as well as other types) partitions around, but I have not heard much about
them. Most disk partition management utilities actually work on Microsoft
partitions which are what FreeBSD calls slices. They do not know anything
about FreeBSD partitions - which are actually subdivisions of slices.
So, if you do not have the room to do the move and symlink process I
describe above, then, you are probably needing to look at buying larger
disk.
Happy disk management,
jerry
Thank you,
Abdullah
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/
If you don't have any free partition space, you will need to backup
a partition and delete it to resize things on your disk using
sysinstall, which may require that you backup your entire disk and
reinstall from scratch. For resizing NTFS partitions (if your system's
dual-boot): http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html.
Googling for resize {filesystem type} will yield the answers to most
questions that you might have about resizing any particular filesystem
partition that you may have, but UFS2 support isn't available IIRC..
-Garrett
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