From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 11:13:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD9637B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A51143E65 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 10269 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2002 18:13:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 16 Aug 2002 18:13:09 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2AE4A85; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:13:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:13:03 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser Cc: MET , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! Message-ID: <20020816181303.GJ389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:00:15 -0500 > From: David Kelly > Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! > If /usr is too lean for future use such as having enough space for > rebuilding the system then "mkdir /home/obj" and "rm -rf /usr/obj; ln -s > /home/obj /usr/obj". Can do the same thing for /usr/ports, and /usr/src, > altho I suggest one use "mv". > > I have moved /usr/obj and /usr/ports this way on several machines. > FreeBSD is quite happy with a symbolic link for these. but you should be warned that e. g. cvs breaks if your repository path contains symlinks. there's bound to be more boneheaded software, though it might not reach the cvs level. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 8:10PM up 7 days, 8:05, 20 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.05, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message