So, I have this disk setup: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 49.2G 1.6G 45.2G 3% / /dev/sd0g 181G 2.0K 172G 0% /backup /dev/sd0f 167G 549M 158G 0% /home /dev/sd0e 9.8G 12.0K 9.3G 0% /tmp /dev/sd0d 49.2G 5.9G 40.8G 13% /var # disklabel sd0 ... 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 104857537 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 0*- 51199 b: 8388608 104857600 swap # Cyl 51200 - 55295 c: 980451328 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -478735 d: 104857600 113246208 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 55296 -106495 e: 20971520 218103808 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 106496 -116735 f: 356515840 239075328 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 116736 -290815 g: 384855782 595591168 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 290816 -478733*
So far, I have nothing on /backup, nothing particularly interesting on /home and /tmp is unused. I want to make /var a bit bigger, but I don't want to rebuild the entire machine from scratch, so could I: 1. Backup all data in /var, /home and / 2. Using disklabel, remove /backup, /home, /tmp, expand /var a bit, recreate /backup, /home and /tmp again 3. Use growfs to push /var up to it's new size 4. Restore the data into /home Is it really that easy to expand a partition? Have I missed something here? Is it a safer/simpler bit to wipe the disk and start again? Gaby -- Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! http://www.playr.co.uk/sudoku/ http://weblog.vanhegan.net/
