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Date:      Tue, 11 May 1999 13:18:18 +0200
From:      Rudi Opperman <rudi@askas.co.za>
To:        lore <lore@phile.com.au>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Circumventing a full partition?
Message-ID:  <373811FA.7972D8B1@askas.co.za>
References:  <37380767.DE01F72@phile.com.au>

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Hi

> 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).
... [snip]...
> 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?
> Any suggestions appreciated.

Just done this myself on 2.2.8 and it seems to work (with cp and stuff
like that).  Will be mirroring a couple hundred meg across it tonight. 
To answer your question, it doesn't seem like a bad idea - and quick to
implement too.  I am interested on other opinions though.

bye
rudi


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