From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 16:34:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CF037B728 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:34:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26456; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:34:55 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id QAA31616; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:34:53 -0700 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:34:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Space Usage In-Reply-To: <20000716162214.B225@pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.e> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > works. Say I have an 8 gig and a 13 gig drive. I mount /usr on the 8 gig, > > along with /, /var, /tmp, etc. I then mount /home on the 13 gig drive. How > > are files handled if I write into /home? Is based upon which drive has the > > most free room? Or does it try to fill up the 8 gig drive first? Assuming > > these are IDE drives, does it matter which controller and position they're > > in (slave/mater.) Thanks in advance! > > Uhh, hmmm? If you have a filesystem mounted at /home and you write > files to that filesystem... The files get written to that filesystem, > to the disk that it is on. Maybe I misunderstand how it works... /home goes under /usr usually, right? Let's say /home is getting full, and I write something into it. Does the system take more from the 8 gig drive since /home should be under /usr, or will it give a device full error? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message