I have the following sutuation in my PC and I would like to extend the size of the FreeBSD partition -partition number 13.
The problem is that the extension cannot be continuous unless I delete the var partition (4GB) and recreate it later after the extension and by taking backup. Swap partition does not pose a problem I think.
What can be done with the var partition?
I am looking for the safest scenario and all suggestions are welcome.
I do not have any important data but I am interested not to break the system and need to build it again.
Would it be a solution with a symbolic link?
gpart show
=> 34 1953525101 ada0 GPT (932G)
598771712 58310648 13 freebsd-ufs (28G)
657082360 16777216 14 freebsd-swap (8.0G)
673859576 8388608 15 freebsd-ufs (4.0G)
682248184 1271276951 - free - (606G)
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ada0p13 27G 22G 2.9G 88% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ada0p15 3.9G 2.5G 1.1G 70% /var
$
The problem is that the extension cannot be continuous unless I delete the var partition (4GB) and recreate it later after the extension and by taking backup. Swap partition does not pose a problem I think.
What can be done with the var partition?
I am looking for the safest scenario and all suggestions are welcome.
I do not have any important data but I am interested not to break the system and need to build it again.
Would it be a solution with a symbolic link?
gpart show
=> 34 1953525101 ada0 GPT (932G)
598771712 58310648 13 freebsd-ufs (28G)
657082360 16777216 14 freebsd-swap (8.0G)
673859576 8388608 15 freebsd-ufs (4.0G)
682248184 1271276951 - free - (606G)
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ada0p13 27G 22G 2.9G 88% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ada0p15 3.9G 2.5G 1.1G 70% /var
$