From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 11:45:55 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 ABD1237B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0D043E6A for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:45:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g7GIivS02450; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:45:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020816134457.018b29d0@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:44:57 -0500 To: Roman Neuhauser From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! Cc: MET , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020816181303.GJ389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 08:13 PM 8.16.2002 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: >> 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. > >-- It was also my understanding that "symlinks" can slow things down too..... not sure about that, but a consideration for any directories that move a lot of data... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message