From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 8 5:23:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.mi.home.com (ha1.rdc2.mi.home.com [24.2.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723C737B5E0 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 05:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lovebot@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.250.22]) by mail.rdc2.mi.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20000508122314.VKRL1374.mail.rdc2.mi.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 8 May 2000 05:23:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3916B1AC.3312CAFF@home.com> Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:23:08 -0400 From: Brian Love X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6llmann?= Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: ReFormat Hard Drive References: <39160265.B4096D58@home.com> <20000508123249.A513@home.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > -- > "Yes," I said, "I talk too much. Lonely men always talk too much. > Either that or they don't talk at all. Shall we get down to business?" > - Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister > # PGP key sent on request / PGP key auf Wunsch per e-mail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message