Re[2]: reduce partition size. HELP

2012-01-03 Thread Коньков Евгений
?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system? RH No. RH Basic steps: RH 0) go to single-user; unmount partition RH 1) backup affected partition; test backup RH 2) delete old partition RH 3) create new/smaller

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Robert. Вы писали 31 декабря 2011 г., 5:16:33: RH =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system? RH No. RH Basic steps: RH 0) go to single-user; unmount partition RH 1) backup affected

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Виталий Владимирович
--- Original message --- From: Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru To: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com Date: 31 December 2011, 11:23:56 Subject: Re: reduce partition size. HELP Здравствуйте, Robert. Вы писали 31 декабря 2011 г., 5:16:33: RH =?windows-1251?B?yu7t

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/12/2011 09:23, Коньков Евгений wrote: is there a way to goto singe-user through ssh? Not in a useful way -- you can bring the system down to single user, but you will be logged out and not able to log in again. If you need to do this level of admin work on a remote machine, you will need

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, ??? ??? wrote: , Robert. ?? ?? 31 ??? 2011 ?., 5:16:33: RH =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system? RH No. RH Basic steps: RH 0) go to single-user

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:45:32 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, ??? ??? wrote: , Robert. ?? ?? 31 ??? 2011 ?., 5:16:33: RH =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: # cd /var # dump -0 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -r -f - Make sure /var does _not_ contain directory names identical to those found on the / partition! As I said, maybe use /scratch. :-) Unless using a freshly newfs-ed partition, it

reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-30 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi, Freebsd-questions. Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system? server is reachable only by ssh. I need to reduce /usr to 300G /dev/ad0s1f1.8T188G1.4T11%/usr -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru

reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-30 Thread Robert Huff
=?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system? No. Basic steps: 0) go to single-user; unmount partition 1) backup affected partition; test backup 2) delete old partition 3) create new

Re: Maximum partition size

2011-05-14 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 11 May 2011 03:37, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers which might be outdated (at least I hope so). What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd

Re: Maximum partition size

2011-05-13 Thread krad
On 11 May 2011 08:37, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers which might be outdated (at least I hope so). What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd

Maximum partition size

2011-05-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers which might be outdated (at least I hope so). What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd like to gstripe two 2TB HDs on a i386. Will that work? bye

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 04:14:55 jaymax wrote: restore -tf /disk03/dump/root2.dump rootrestore-0.lst To my surprise rootrestore-0.lst contains a whole listings of ./usr/ files ex. 2926 ./usr/include/bsnmp/snmpmod.h 2927 ./usr/include/bsnmp/snmp_atm.h Now

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-08 Thread jaymax
, the capacity from df-k is back down to 10% thanks again with your permission I'd like to post your advise on the FreeBSD Forum, of course with credits =) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inconsistency-in-root-partition-size-tp25314145p25356456.html Sent from the freebsd

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread jaymax
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Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:12:07 -0700 (PDT), jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: Is there somewhere I can find a listing of files and directories that are supposed to be at the / level? if there is perchance some bizarre file, that du is not accounting for. You can of course read man hier to obtain

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 07 September 2009 04:24:07 jaymax wrote: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630503694 -36674 108%/ Don't know if the above can show anything It is of course entirely possible at this point, that the disk *is* full. Could you

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread jaymax
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Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 07 September 2009 20:54:51 jaymax wrote: mach_1# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a5076304073845963687%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e505646 14212 450984 3%

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread jaymax
Mel Flynn-2 wrote: On Monday 07 September 2009 20:54:51 jaymax wrote: Thanks, will do a new dump, one question - how can one determine that the dumpfile produced is good? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inconsistency-in-root-partition-size-tp25314145p25337689.html

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: From: jaymax jayma...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Inconsistency in root partition size To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 7:06 PM Mel Flynn-2 wrote: On Monday 07 September 2009 20:54:51 jaymax wrote: Thanks

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-07 Thread jaymax
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Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 06 September 2009 04:34:20 jaymax wrote: I apparently have open file handles in my / partitions. It was partitioned at 512 Mb size, used about 150Mb df shows Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a496M492M-36M 108%/ adjkerntz 147

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-06 Thread jaymax
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Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 06 September 2009 12:17:59 jaymax wrote: ran fsck on / mounted partition, is that reasonable or possible, since it is / or do I have to use a livefs disk like Fixit or Frenzy for this No, single user mode. Root partition in single user mode can be fsck'd and repaired if mounted ro

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-06 Thread jaymax
Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630503694 -36674 108%/ Don't know if the above can show anything Could this be a kernel issue, tuning etc? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inconsistency-in-root-partition-size-tp25314145p25324178.html Sent from the freebsd

Re: Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-06 Thread Adam Vande More
Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM, jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: Mel Flynn-2 wrote: No, single user mode. Root partition in single user mode can be fsck'd and repaired if mounted ro in single user. The system does fsck -p by default, which skips partitions marked clean. Since you

Inconsistency in root partition size

2009-09-05 Thread jaymax
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How to grow partition size on RAID volume?

2009-01-11 Thread Darren David
to recognize the extra space. I know that in order to use growfs, I first have to use disklabel to increase the partition size. However, disklabel doesn't like this big RAID volume: # disklabel /dev/da0 disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported and the existing partition

Adjusting partition size with disklabel

2006-06-30 Thread Morten A. Middelthon
Hi, long story short, I have a partition on a RAID5 array which after an accident where I had to rebuild the array became smaller than it originally was. Here's the original size: amrd1: 1430505MB (2929674240 sectors) RAID 5 (degraded) and the new size after the rebuild: amrd1: 1430400MB

Re: Adjusting partition size with disklabel

2006-06-30 Thread Joao Barros
On 6/30/06, Morten A. Middelthon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, long story short, I have a partition on a RAID5 array which after an accident where I had to rebuild the array became smaller than it originally was. Here's the original size: amrd1: 1430505MB (2929674240 sectors) RAID 5 (degraded)

fdisk maximum partition size

2005-08-10 Thread Valerio daelli
Hi all does anyone know any maximum limit to the slice size in freebsd? We would like to create a filesystem of 2.2T. Is there any limit in fdisk and bsdlabel? Thanks a lot Valerio Daelli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fdisk maximum partition size

2005-08-10 Thread dpk
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Valerio daelli wrote: Hi all does anyone know any maximum limit to the slice size in freebsd? We would like to create a filesystem of 2.2T. Is there any limit in fdisk and bsdlabel? Thanks a lot fdisk does not support 2TB partitions -- at least, I've been unable to get

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister wrote: This 'rest of the disk' should be divided up into chunks that can be dump(8)ed to one backup media if possible. Otherwise you will get sloppy and not do backups because it is harder. Since there is a What kind of nonsense is this? I've never heard about

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-26 Thread John Hoover
I'm sure that many will disagree, but if you don't want to worry about the partition sizes, don't. Just have two partitions, / and swap. I may have started a flame war, but for my small installs, it works just fine. John. - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm sure that many will disagree, but if you don't want to worry about the partition sizes, don't. Just have two partitions, / and swap. Sure, that works. It is an especially viable way of doing it for small systems that won't be handling lots of file growth. But, there are reasons,

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-25 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:03:17 -0500, Peterhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going by what G. Lehey is suggesting in his book The Complete FreeBSD on pg. 70 he does not recommend a /usr, or a /var file system. [...] What does he recommend then? Now that I

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
over to the small partition, make the links and then rename the mount points and finally clean up). So, just an example of what works nicely on a machine with a small MySQl database, full source and ports and 1 GB memory on a 40GB nominal drive: partition size mounted as % full 256

Partition Size

2005-01-25 Thread Peterhin
I would like to say to all that responded to my question a big thanks. For many of you this is old hat, for an old guy like myself who wants to learn FreeBSD, the learning curve is steep to say the least. (Like trying to drink from a fire hose). I do appreciate the many different approaches to

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jerry McAllister wrote: This 'rest of the disk' should be divided up into chunks that can be dump(8)ed to one backup media if possible. Otherwise you will get sloppy and not do backups because it is harder. Since there is a What kind of nonsense is this? I've never heard about such an advise,

Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread Peterhin
I asked the question the other day, whether to do a standard install or a custom install. This was brought about because I read several sources, including G. Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD I will be doing a Custom install. My question however, is looking at page 70, in The Complete FreeBSD and

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Leitner
i dont see the /usr in your calculations... asside of that... it really depends on what youre going to do with the system, or which data its going to be holding... this is absolutely subjective, cant tell you as long as i dont get any further data on the probably size of your data, and where

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread Peterhin
I am going by what G. Lehey is suggesting in his book The Complete FreeBSD on pg. 70 he does not recommend a /usr, or a /var file system. i dont see the /usr in your calculations... asside of that... it really depends on what youre going to do with the system, or which data its going to be

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:03, Peterhin wrote: I am going by what G. Lehey is suggesting in his book The Complete FreeBSD on pg. 70 he does not recommend a /usr, or a /var file system. i dont see the /usr in your calculations... asside of that... it really depends on what youre

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread Danny
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:03:17 -0500, Peterhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going by what G. Lehey is suggesting in his book The Complete FreeBSD on pg. 70 he does not recommend a /usr, or a /var file system. [...] What does he recommend then? ...D

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread pete wright
That would leave me with a /home of approx. 72GB. I would appreciate any thoughts as to how I should do this. The computer will be used as a stand alone workstation, with internet and email access for now. I do have a large number of JPEG files in my existing /home directory. (Linux)

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:43:35AM +0100, Oliver Leitner wrote: i dont see the /usr in your calculations... That is actually consistent with his source. Greg Lehey's recommendation is to not separate root and /usr. aside of that... it really depends on what youre going to do with the

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Peterhin thusly... looking at page 70, in The Complete FreeBSD and I quote Use the rest of the space on disk for a /home file system. as long as it's possible to back it up on a single tape. Otherwise make multiple file systems. My question is do I make