On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:43:51PM -0400, Nick ! wrote: > Short answer: no. Give up now and reinstall now that you know what you need. > > Long answer: Yes, the FAQ which you sound like you've read does imply > that this is possible. However, this is pretty low-level stuff so it's > really tricky. All the filesystems right now are packed together (or > probably are at least; you can check your disklabel to see, with some > graphing paper and patience, exactly where they are positioned). If > you've left unused space at the end, and /var is the lastmost > partition, it will be possible to grow it. See growfs(8) and read it > very carefully. > > But you would probably be better off doing a clean install.
Reinstall may be the easiest and cleanest. There's also another alternative that you left out, which I have done before. If you have unused space at the end, you can add a slice and newfs for a new /var, then reboot single user and copy everything over, edit fstab, etc. Not *too* tricky at all, if the space is there to begin with. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
