Michael wrote:
> And the argument about /var filling up while /usr has some gigs left is 
> just asking for something like the the Logical Volume Manager and 
> filesystems that can grow. On an AIX box  for instance you start with a 
> bunch of smallish filesystems and a lot of unpartitioned space, then 
> grow the filesystems on demand ( and reorg them over night ). Thanks to 
> the lvm you can throw in new disks whenever you want and extend 
> filesystems to use them without stopping anything. As far as I know 
> RAIDframe and vinum do the lvm part but we don't have a growable 
> filesystem. Is there any effort going on to get resizable filesystems 
> NetBSD?

May be in corporate environments, where SANs are deployed more often, 
such issues are not so relevant. You get one virtual pool of storage 
that you can partition however you like it.