Re: Problem: How to resize FreeBSD "partitions" on a live system?

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On 2006-06-15, Steve Ackman <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can effectively do that without touching partitions by creating
a directory like /usr/var/db and moving all your /var/db stuff to it.
Now create the link /var/db -> /usr/var/db

Note that /var/db contains mostly (if not exclusively[1]) system database
type things, like the package database, mounttab, that sort of thing.

Looking at my copy of the ports tree, mysql defaults to /var/db/mysql,
so in the event of moving-and-symlinking, I'd probably _only_ move that,
not the entirety of /var/db, as I personally like the rest where it is.


[1] I tend to try and keep it that way.

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