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- From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Disk Partitioning
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.010237.2450@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 01:02:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.182425.117776@zeus.calpoly.edu> <245@ftms.UUCP> <1992Jul21.214918.157285@zeus.calpoly.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.214918.157285@zeus.calpoly.edu> etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao) writes:
- >
- >As my earlier followup says, I was actually looking for a way to "grow" the
- >fs into the partition without having to backup/newfs/restore because this
- >deals with the root and /usr partitions. I was hoping to avoid having to boot
- >miniroot etc...
-
- You have hit upon a good reason for making /usr/local it's own partition.
- /usr (the standard OS supplied by the vendor) is relatively stable, and
- can be sized fairly accurately at install time once you know what options
- (oops - packages) you want to load. We put everything else in /usr/local,
- including OW{2,3} in /usr/local/openwin and the development tools in
- /usr/local/lang. In fact, we now have so much third-party stuff that
- /usr/local has grown beyond the entire 600 MB disk originally allocated
- for it.
-
- So now we have come full circle, and /usr/local is once again on the /usr
- partition, but now it contains only symbolic links to various locations:
-
- frame3.0X -> /n/server1/d1/frame3.0X
- frame3.1OL -> /n/server1/d1/frame3.1OL
- khoros -> /n/server2/d1/khoros
- openwin -> /n/server3/d2/openwin3
- . . . etc
-
-
- To answer your question, no I don't believe you can grow a Berkeley
- FFS partition without saving, newfs'ing, and restoring. Solaris-2
- has a filesystem switch which will allow other types of filesystems
- such as RFS, AFS, and a bunch of others. I don't know if you can
- grow any of them either. The IBM AIX filesystem does allow you to
- grow a "logical volume", but since it doesn't allow you to shrink
- one it doesn't sound too useful except when adding a new disk drive.
- I don't know if you can mount an AIX filesystem under the SVR4
- filesystem switch.
-
- --
- Dave Kemp dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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