From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 4 09:11:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29097 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:11:45 -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 JAA29092 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by deimos.senate.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA12298; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:11:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman Message-Id: <199707041611.MAA12298@deimos.senate.org> Subject: /usr/src (was Re: /tmp and Disk Space) In-Reply-To: from Antonio Bemfica at "Jul 4, 97 12:53:07 pm" To: bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca (Antonio Bemfica) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:11:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: ashworth@cs.montana.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can I also remove branches of the /usr/src tree that I don't need to save space? I doubt I'll ever feel the need to look at the GCC code for example. > On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > > > 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: > > Move /compat to /usr or /home and create a link to it from / > > # cd / > # mv compat /usr > # ln -fs /usr/compat > > Antonio > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius'. It is fascinating > to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid > using the term" -- John Lanchester, in "The Debt to Pleasure" > >