Hello Nick, Thanks for your reply. I figured everyone was busy so I played around trying a few things. I was able to copy /var to a new directory, unmount -f /var and rename the new directory to /var. So far so good...
Changed my fstab to not mount the filesystems I wanted to delete, and rebooted. This worked fine but then when I went to disklabel I was having a hard time figuring out why, after deleting the unwanted partitions disklabel was not in a helpful mood about adding a new partition in the right area. I had two large free areas with some used space in the middle. The disklabel add wanted to add after the last used partition, not in between in the dead space, and I couldn't figure out how to do it. And then I realized I was still going to end up with a suboptimal layout, so I just copied my user directories and /etc to another box and installed a new 6.4 over my old upgraded 6.4 system and did the layout again. Took about an hour to get everything straightened out. Are smbd and nmbd supposed to run as root? httpd changes to www but I don't see anything like that for samba. I can't remember how it was working before. Thanks, /jl > This is again why I argue, just because you got a 500g drive on your > firewall doesn't mean you need to allocate all of it. Give me 20g > spare space and there isn't much I couldn't shuffle on a system, even > remotely (I can't move /. I can't necessarily save data without > someplace else to put it). Agreed. I had space, I just didn't like the way it was arranged. I would have had to move /usr and /usr/X11R6 and it was just not worth the effort given the drive in question is pretty much just the system whereas the content for the services it runs is on other drives. > > Nick. >
