From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 20 19:16:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09796 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09777 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA17148; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:45:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971021114541.58792@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:45:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kwoody Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Kwoody on Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 05:24:22PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 05:24:22PM -0700, Kwoody wrote: > > I want to grab a 300 meg slice off my wd0. BSD resides entirely on wd1. > > I would like to make the slice then install the source code from the cd > onto that slice of wd0. Can I link /usr/src to this, Yes, but it would make a lot more sense to mount the file system on /usr/src. > and would it pose a problem when making a new kernal? Probably. The src hierarchy currently runs to about 330 MB. If you were to take 400 MB, you would be in better shape. Remember that you can't use the last 10% of a UFS file system. Greg