From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 22:00:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D95516A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:00:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spammesilly@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43BF43D4C for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:00:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spammesilly@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so41476nzk for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:59:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=h7bQevooU8fYL4aOfIcs6OzxhPkBoAF9oQCiHLA7JkhlQC/8w0XKzxltZOaEj6HaEhwu7c/jirM5M01571vr6MVWX5s+rqFy90ioyJQY72OSL5VzjVUWPFQBDOr3KALQebEoZON5WgFrGUnmetFar0NCSq8qP0VtsZJOMwSA/jc= Received: by 10.54.77.12 with SMTP id z12mr1235120wra; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.99.4 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:22:34 -0400 From: Daniel Gonzalez To: fbsdlists@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <54db439905091314355fb65b05@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <54db439905091314355fb65b05@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-use disk Space? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: spammesilly@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:00:03 -0000 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 wrote: > On 9/13/05, Daniel Gonzalez 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