On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:42:40AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: > Nathan Kinkade said... > > Here is quick rundown on how you could achieve your goal: > > > > 1) Mount the new disk at at /mnt with something like: > > # mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt > > 2) Copy everything from your original /var partition to the new one: > > # cd /var && tar cf - ./ | (cd /mnt && tar xvpf -) > > 3) Edit /etc/fstab from something like: > > /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs defaults > 1 2 > > to: > > /dev/ad1s1a /var ufs defaults > 1 2 > > 4) Unmount old partition from /var and mount new one at /var: > > # umount /var && mount /var > > > > Also, you may want to reallocate the partition formerly mounted at /var > for something else? > > Your advice was right on thank you very much. Actually step #4 was > automatically handled by step #3. > > Regarding reallocation of space formerly occupied by /var on /dev/ad0s2d, is > there a way to reallocate it back to one of the other existing partitions or > do you mean only to use it as is for something else? > > Gerald
I was actually suggesting that you could just mount the old partition at another mount point, but I suppose there is the possibility to have the old partition swallowed up by the one directly proceeding it on the physical disk. I have never done it and I don't know anything about it, but there is a utility called growfs(8) that might be of use. Nathan
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