Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:12:02 -0800 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> To: "Richard Maher" <richard@ram6.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk space question Message-ID: <3C253D72.12601.6D48D66@localhost> In-Reply-To: <95000AEE5C97FA40ADA5EECF715BAEE45E51@mail.ram6.com>
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> I ran out of space on the boot disk and I need more room for /usr. Is > it possible to combine two slices from two different hard disks and > mount them to the same point? If not, what else can be done? Theoretically, you *can* mount two different partitions to the same mount point using unionfs. However, there are several issues with unions and it is not recommended. Instead, cd to /usr and do a "du -h --max-depth=1" and figure out which directories are taking up the most space. Consider mounting those directories off the other disk, or moving it to a different partition and creating symlinks pointing back to where it used to be. I hope you didn't include /usr as part of your / partition. If you make only two partitions (three if you include swap), you should *always* have / and /usr as different partitions. Everything can be moved to /usr if need be (/home --> /usr/home, /var --> /usr/var, etc) to make more room in /. In the future, post technical-type questions like this to freebsd- questions. This is not the right list. Afterall, do you really want a bunch of newbies answering your technical questions? :) Cheers, Freddie PhoenixTek Consulting fcash@bigfoot.com Unix / Networking Services (250) 314-4029 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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