Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:16:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: Gary <gary@mygirlfriday.info> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: linking a dir Message-ID: <20030916091117.V360@njamn8or.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <906762293.20030916105121@mygirlfriday.info> References: <906762293.20030916105121@mygirlfriday.info>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Gary wrote: > Hello Guys, > > It seems that on a remote box FBSD 4.8, my /dev/ad0s1a or / dir is at 73% capacity > already, and this has me somewhat worried. I attribute this to the /etc > dir inside of the / dir, as it contains many log files, etc... or perhaps > the 2 kernels sitting under / both kernel and kernel.GENERIC > > Question is can I cp /etc to say a /usr/etc and link it (as I have tons of > room under /usr) without any problem. The more usual culprit is /root if you have been using the superuser account to access things better suited to a normal user. Logfiles normally go to /var rather than /etc, which mostly contains configuration files and startup scripts. du is your friend in this situation. Cheers, Viktor
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