Increase space

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kfarmer

Okay so this was a issue I've been stuck with, I have a server that has the following as a partition space size;

Code: 
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    989M    773M    137M    85%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/da0s1e    339G    100G    212G    32%    /home
/dev/da0s1d    496M    692K    455M     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0s1f    332G    6.2G    299G     2%    /usr

My problem is the / space is running out. I was hoping to upgrade to freebsd 8.0 but I don't think it will be possible with the space being so small. Is there anyway for me to increase space by taking space from /usr? Yeah it's been a sore now because the server is on production and I would hate to redo it. I was hoping that diskpart in the future would have something to help out but it appears ufs is pretty killer.

Thoughts?
 
Have you been running an 8.0 BETA / RC before? If so, your /boot/kernel directory (or directories) may be full of debugging symbol files.

If that's not the case, check your / partition for .core files and delete those. A / partition of 1 GB should really be enough.
 
DutchDaemon said:
Have you been running an 8.0 BETA / RC before? If so, your /boot/kernel directory (or directories) may be full of debugging symbol files.

If that's not the case, check your / partition for .core files and delete those. A / partition of 1 GB should really be enough.
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Actually the server is on

Code: 
6.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 #5: Tue Oct 23 09:42:55 EDT 2007     kfarmer@someland.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FATL  amd64

I'll have a go at it, I suppose if I back it up first I should be okay.
 
I'm not sure how well a straight 6.2-REL -> 8.0-REL upgrade is supported. You might want to try the 6.2-REL -> 6.4-REL -> (7.0-REL ->) 7.2-REL -> 8.0 REL upgrade route to make sure you have everything. Or start with a brand new install and restore backups. You'll need to reinstall all of your ports anyway.
 
Ah, good one. Didn't even notice it was missing. So you're probably looking at a healthy-sized /var/log. If you can't manage to put it on its own mountpoint, drop to single-user mode, mount /usr in rw mode, move /var to /usr/var and symlink them. That should leave ample space in /. Having a separate /var partition would be better, and having a separate /var/log even more so.
 
I would suggest backing /etc and /var up to home and repartitioning if possible. Buy a cheap USB thumb drive, install 8.0 to that and work from there.
 
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