Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-11-19, Steve Litt wrote: > In OpenBSD is there such a thing as a bind mount like they have in > Linux? No. The closest is probably "mount from 127.0.0.1 over NFS".

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:52:52 +0200 Dumitru Moldovan wrote: > > 1. Install the same OS on new hardware, in your case with a better > partitioned drive. > > 2. rsync everything relevant to the new machine (but make sure it > still boots afterwards and functions as expected, so amend

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:28:55 - (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019-11-17, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something > > obvious. > > > > I recently installed openBSD on a server using the auto-partition > > layout during

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Dumitru Moldovan
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:31:25PM +0200, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 03:12:06PM -0800, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: This makes sense, but I was curious what the recommended approach is for a server that you cannot simply reinstall. A humble piece of advice from a fellow system

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Dumitru Moldovan
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 03:12:06PM -0800, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: This makes sense, but I was curious what the recommended approach is for a server that you cannot simply reinstall. A humble piece of advice from a fellow system admin... Never ever build a system that "you cannot simply

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019-11-17, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something obvious. > > > > I recently installed openBSD on a server using the auto-partition layout > > during installation and am quickly starting to run out

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-11-17, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something obvious. > > I recently installed openBSD on a server using the auto-partition layout > during installation and am quickly starting to run out of disk space. > > I have read the

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-18 Thread Joseph A Borg
you have to boot in single user mode: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html > On 18 Nov 2019, at 00:12, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > > Hi Edgar, > > Thanks for the response. > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 04:06:18PM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: >> >> On Nov 17, 2019 2:35 PM, Lev Lazinskiy wrote:

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-17 Thread Lev Lazinskiy
Hi Edgar, Thanks for the response. On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 04:06:18PM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2019 2:35 PM, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something obvious. > > > > I recently installed openBSD on a

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-17 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On Nov 17, 2019 2:35 PM, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something obvious. > > I recently installed openBSD on a server using the auto-partition layout > during installation and am quickly starting to run out of disk space. > > I

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-17 Thread Lev Lazinskiy
Hi Brian, Thank you very much, I really appreciate the help. On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 03:46:27PM -0500, Brian Brombacher wrote: > Boot into single user mode. At the boot loader prompt, type boot -s. This > will drop you to a root shell. > > > > > On Nov 17, 2019, at 3:39 PM, Lev Lazinskiy

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-17 Thread Brian Brombacher
Boot into single user mode. At the boot loader prompt, type boot -s. This will drop you to a root shell. > On Nov 17, 2019, at 3:39 PM, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something obvious. > > I recently installed openBSD on a

Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-17 Thread Lev Lazinskiy
Hi folks, I am new to openBSD, so forgive me if I am missing something obvious. I recently installed openBSD on a server using the auto-partition layout during installation and am quickly starting to run out of disk space. I have read the section in the FAQ [1] regarding how to grow a disk