From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 4 08:47:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA28248 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 08:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deimos.senate.org (nathan@senate.org [204.141.125.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA28243 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 08:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by deimos.senate.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10293 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:47:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:47:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman Message-Id: <199707041547.LAA10293@deimos.senate.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /tmp and Disk Space Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I created the following setup when I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2: 32M / 30M /var 390M /home 515M /usr 63M /swap The 32M / was recommended by the setup itself. However, now I have almost no space on / because of the /compat crap. Here is the output of a df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 31775 28671 562 98% / /dev/wd0s1f 386655 9901 345822 3% /home /dev/wd1s1e 511583 381576 89081 81% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 2124 25225 8% /var (THAT is a moused bug, it was not double spaced!) Anyhow, if I make a symbolic link /tmp -> /var/tmp, is that OK? Also, can I just rm -rf parts of the /usr/src tree I don't need? I haven't installed any- thing and I'm already 81% (lie, i installed some packages).