Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:55:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: lore <lore@phile.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Circumventing a full partition? Message-ID: <19990512095521.D65965@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37380767.DE01F72@phile.com.au>; from lore on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:33:11PM %2B1000 References: <37380767.DE01F72@phile.com.au>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 11 May 1999 at 20:33:11 +1000, lore wrote: > At the risk of this being a stupid question, I have run out of space > on my /usr filesystem while doing a make install on Bind 8.2 (its > FreeBSD 3.1-Release). Here's a little info: > > Output of df: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd1s2a 198399 27897 154631 15% / > /dev/wd1s2h 597719 44324 505578 8% /home > /dev/wd1s2f 694607 666675 -27636 104% /usr > /dev/wd1s2g 694607 49705 589334 8% /usr/local > /dev/wd1s2e 99183 2608 88641 3% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Output of ls /usr (reformatted to save space) > X11R6 bin bind compat games include > lib libdata > libexec local mdec obj ports > sbin share > src tmp I don't understand this format. Is it supposed to represent a hierarchy? > Now comes the potentially stupid question: Is it reasonable to move > some of these subdirs to /usr/local and make a soft link to them to > create more space on the /usr filesystem? Or won't that work? That's about all you can do now. Of course, you would have been much better off having only two file systems on this disk: / and /usr. That way the problem would never have occurred. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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