> > 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
Well, I had a VM laying around so thought to fire it up and do some testing. I know this is absurd abit but I wanted to see the effect of doing symlinks with pwd.db files. - I was able to copy /etc/pwd.db /etc/spwd.db to /var/etc/ - Then I deleted /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db - created ln -s /var/etc/pwd.db /etc/pwd.db and ln -s /var/etc/spwd.db /etc/spwd.db - changed the root password, worked! - Even rebooted the system and was able to successfully able to login - All worked fine except, I noticed after running passwd to reset a user password, the system copied pwd.db and spwd.db over the symlinks so I always was ending up with /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db files I guess this method will solve your space problem if there is a way to make the system follow the symlink instead of overwriting it everytime a password is changed/created. Tamouh _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
