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Date:      Mon, 08 May 2000 08:23:08 -0400
From:      Brian Love <lovebot@home.com>
To:        Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6llmann?= <koellmann@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ReFormat Hard Drive
Message-ID:  <3916B1AC.3312CAFF@home.com>
References:  <39160265.B4096D58@home.com> <20000508123249.A513@home.net>

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Thanks...

var and tmp were already moved off /
Moved /root to /usr/home/root and gained about 6-7M (netscape and kde files
mostly)

Can you suggest any other dirs I can safely move?

brian

Thomas Köllmann wrote:

> Brian Love wrote/schrieb (Sunday, May 07, 2000):
>
> | After starting the make installworld part of the 3.4S ->4.0S cvsup
> | update, I ran out of space in my / directory.  Even after moving and
> | symlinking a number of directories, I am still faced with the fact that
> | a 32Meg partition is too small.
>
> A / of 32MB may not be much, but it's not necessarily too small:
>
> (desk) k => uname -vm
> FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #69: Tue Apr 25 03:42:46 CEST 2000
> root@desk.home.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/desk  i386
> (desk) k => df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s4a     39647    23985    12491    66%    /
>
> For comparison:
>
> (server) k => uname -vm
> FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #16: Mon May  1 13:24:25 CEST 2000
> root@server.home.net:/usr/src/3-stable/src/sys/compile/server  i386
> (server) k => df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0s1a     31743    20085     9119    69%    /
>
> You have /var and /tmp moved somewhere else? Do you have lots of
> stuff in /root?
>
> | Is there a moderated, approved, FreeBSD way to move all the data off the
> | / directory and move it to another [...]
> | directory, deleting, adding to and reformatting the slice with the
> | partition and label editor, and dumping the data back onto the newly
> | enlarged / partition? [...]
>
> I don't know but I guess you should find out what's filling up /
> before doing so.
>
> Gruß
>  - Thomas
>
> --
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