Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Marcelo Maraboli
Tamouh H. wrote: 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.mar

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Derek Ragona
I have moved my root partition on one server. I copied the entire partition to a new partition on a different drive using cpio as I wanted /dev moved too. At the time this was running 4.x. After moving the root partition I rebooted and made sure the new partition was still fine. Then I chan

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Tamouh H. wrote: 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 delete

RE: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Tamouh H.
> > 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 mar

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
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 > >C

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Robert Huff
Chuck Swiger writes: > 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 /. Certainly, the consequences if Something Went Horribly Wrong(tm) would be quite pain

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
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: