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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:15:08 -0500
From:      Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>
To:        Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>, Roland Giesler <roland@thegreentree.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Resizing disk labels
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.0.20031125181330.01c7a288@pop.face2interface.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031125132300.J29742@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
References:  <NFEBLNMJLPMABJMOEINDMEFECIAA.roland@thegreentree.org> <20031125132300.J29742@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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At 07:42 AM 11/25/2003, Konrad Heuer wrote:

>3) Try to identify subdirectories containing a lot of data within the
>    filesystem which is too small, move them by mv to a filesystem with
>    enough free space and symlink them back (ln -s) to the old location.
>    But do not move the whole /etc directory from the root to another
>    filesystem!

Newbie question here. Is the reason you don't suggest mv then ln -s for 
/etc because it is accessed very frequently so it would incur the most 
overhead to make this choice?

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