From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 2:16:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cms-mpc.com (mail.cms-mpc.com [209.99.158.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CC737B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from cms-mpc.com (host60.cms-mpc.com [209.99.158.60] (may be forged)) by mail.cms-mpc.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id FAA15025 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:16:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A6AB6B3.69BDF655@cms-mpc.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:15:15 -0500 From: Bryant Martin Organization: Commonwealth/Martin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Checking Disk Space. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an older FreeBSD installation, supplied to me by my ISP many years ago. It was on a 1.6 GB EIDE drive and old 66 Mhz PC. Two weeks ago I decided to replace this server with a new PC, with 4 GB EIDE, CD Drive and fast processor. Not knowing how to do it, I pulled the 1.6 drive and found that Norton's `Ghost' could read it. I copied it to the 4 GB offline. I put the 4 GB in the new PC and it ran fine, except the first night, when it coughed and restared several times. I think BSD must have been making fixes for its new environment? But, I would like to know how much of the 4 GB the single OS is using. I have looked at my books and your site helps and can't seem to find a command similar to dos' `dir', which will end its display with `bytes available' info. This raises other issues: If it's using 1.6 GB only, who there can help me (for money) by phone change the slice sizes, and maybe advise about swap space and other matters, such as is the CD being seen, and is the CD useful to me. This is a small installation of less than 60 users. Too, I once wrote some PPP stuff to get my dial-up modem working on COM1. That took me two months, and I've forgotten how I did it, exactly, but it's working great. (This gives me ISP free from home through my BSD at the office.) Can one of your experts help me look at my install and get the same thing working for COM2, so I can hang another modem? Last point. It's been centuries since I upgraded (although I have two newer CD sets at my office where I was thinking about trying). Everything runs great on my system, but I need to consider the security implications of staying back at my old level. Thanks for considering my pleas. Bryant Martin Commonwealth/Martin 1700 Venable Street Richmond, VA 23223-6308 Voice Mail: 800.336.6245 x103 (local 804.780.1700 x103) My Desk and Fax: 804.783.2601 Office Fax: 804.782.9876 FTP: ftp://ftp.cms-mpc.com/ [ip 209.99.158.2] ftp://ftp.mail-production.com/ [ip 206.225.19.3] end_of_document To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message