/var too small [was Gap of years = loss of memory!!]

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:16,  the author Jerry McAllister contributed to 
> the dialogue on-
>  Re: /var too small [was Gap of years = loss of memory!!]: 
> ...
> >> (c) I have therefore bought a new 200G SATA drive to add to the system.
> >> (d)  I wish to allocate 40G to /var and
> >> (e) 160G to /dev
> >> (f) rename /var to /var.old
> >> (g) move /var.old to /var
> >> (h) have /var.old mounted as /logs
> >> (i) At the same time I also propose increasing memory from 1G to 2G which
> >> will
> >
> >You do not allocate anything to /dev.   That is a special directory
> >just for devices.   Do you really mean something else?
> 
> Yes its my abbreviation for developer!! I must be careful not to do /dev -- 
> thanks for drawing my attention to that one!!
> 
> I really appreciate yr help.
> 
> Leaving aside the SATA issues about SATA1 & SATA2 could you possibly check 
> over my proposed fstab entries below?

Didn't see any new fstab in this message.

The old one you show seems to have all filesystems on disk 4 
I don't see anything for the new disk.   If that comes out to
be disk 6, then it would probably want to mount ad6s1e as /var
and maybe ad6s1f as /devel  or something like that.

Since I do the fdisk, disklabel and newfs by hand on additional disks,
I have never assumed anything about how sysinstall treats fstab in
subsequent disk additions.

////jerry

> >
> >As for moving the /var partition:
> ...
> >  cd /var
> >  rm /var.tar
> >
> Got it = a good plan to me
> Thanks again
> David
> >
> >
> >As for below, I can't tell you about shuffling drives on a SATA.
> >Hopefully someone else knows that.
> >
> >////jerry
> >
> >> hopefully speed up my compiling a little.
> >>
> >> OK so far .. now
> >> If I put the new drive onto SATA 1 with the exiting drive remaining on
> >> SATA2 the bios expects to boot from CD. Currently the bios is set to boot
> >> from HDD0 but if I change the bios to HDD1 it makes no difference. The
> >> system does not boot at all.
> >>
> >> Unless I have missed something it seems the bios cannot be set to allow 
> >> boot from SATA2 if a drive is present on SATA1.
> >>
> >> If I put the existing drive onto SATA 1 with the new drive onto SATA2 then
> >> the root mount fails. The existing drive appears to be recognized as ad4
> >> so if my recollection is correct the first step would be  to alter
> >> /etc/fstab to read:
> >>
> >> /dev/ad4s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> >> /dev/ad4s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> >> /dev/ad4s1e             /tmp            ufs     rw              2       2
> >> /dev/ad4s1f             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> >> /dev/ad4s1d             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> >> /dev/acd0               /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> >>
> >> and the system should mount OK???
> >> IS that correct?
> >> I want to get this right first time (if possible!!)
> >>
> >> Then presumably I can
> >> (a) use sysinstall to add the new drive which should presumably mount as
> >> ad6? (b) Create partition ad6s1a (+/-40g)
> >> (c) Create partition ad6s1b (+- 160G)