On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:39:18AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Mar 19, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: > >my / partition has only 73.196 Mbytes available and since I > >have 22.000 users, I now cannot change anyone?s password.. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ passwd marcelo.maraboli > >Changing local password for marcelo.maraboli > >New Password: > >Retype New Password: > > > >/: write failed, filesystem is full > >pwd_mkdb: write old: No space left on device > >passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module > > > >How can I rezise the "/" partition or move the spwb.db > >and pwd.db files to another partition ?? (each of them is 44 Mbytes) > > You certainly don't want to move the password files out of /etc-- > you'll render the machine unbootable as it needs to find them on the > root partition. The only approach I see which is likely to be > workable would be to backup the system, repartition the disks with a > larger root partition, and restore from backups.
I agree. > However, in theory, if you had free disk space, you could use growfs > to expand the root partition without repartitioning, but I am dubious > about using that command against /. I believe, with growfs, the space that you add must be contiguous with the partition it is joining. So, unless there is a partition that could be shrunk next to root, (maybe swap is there) it wouldn't work. If there is room - maybe by mucking with swap if it is the next partition, then it might be do-able. But, I would also be leary of doing it with /. ////jerry > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
