Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:22:34 -0400 From: Daniel Gonzalez <spammesilly@gmail.com> To: fbsdlists@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-use disk Space? Message-ID: <ef208e5305091412225cbbb292@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db439905091314355fb65b05@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef208e530509130704ec74cf2@mail.gmail.com> <54db439905091314355fb65b05@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks to all who resoponded. I'll probably try the latter option after I back up any mp3 etc on that partition. Regards=20 dan On 9/13/05, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/13/05, Daniel Gonzalez <spammesilly@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a quick question about re-apportioning disk space on my > > computer (FreebSD 5.4RC2 Athlon 850 MHz 512MB RAM) > > Here is the output of df -H: > > > > REDE2SRV# df -H > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 520M 61M 418M 13% / > > devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev > > /dev/ad0s1f 5.3G 805M 4.1G 17% /music > > /dev/ad0s1e 1.5G 133k 1.4G 0% /tmp > > /dev/ad1s1d 8.4G 7.0G 732M 90% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1d 1.5G 48M 1.3G 3% /var > > > > My /usr partiton is almost at capacity (90%) on a separate disk > > (/dev/ad1) from the rest of the other partitons. I allocated way too > > much space for my /music partition (dev/ad0s1f). I don't plan on ever > > using up the 4.1GB that's left over. I've been archiving (to CD) my > > mp3s, oggs etc so I always have a backup. What I wanted to know is > > would it be possible to reclaim some disk space under the /music > > partion and link a /usr sub-partition (/usr/home) to that reclaimed > > space? Hopefully I've explained myself clearly. What part of the > > handbook sections could I start with? > > > > Regards > > -- > > Dan Gonzalez >=20 > You've pretty much described one solution by asking the question. You > could create a directory in music (e.g. /music/home) and then create a > symbolic link to it: >=20 > ln -s /music/home /usr/home >=20 > For most purposes, that should work (if /usr/home already exists, you > might want to rename it first!). >=20 > Or if you can use the entire /music volume as /home, just edit > /etc/fstab and have it mounted as /home instead of /music. This will > avoid any confusion caused by utilities that might not follow symbolic > links by default. >=20 > - Bob >=20 --=20 Dan Gonzalez spammesilly@gmail.com IM: signulth
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