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.

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