Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:49:21 +0200 From: wolfgang <GeneralP.Fault@gmx.net> To: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finding disk space Message-ID: <200210141849.21104.GeneralP.Fault@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <1034613360.3270.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> References: <1034613360.3270.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
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In an older episode (Monday 14 October 2002 18:35), Kirk R. Wythers wrote= : > I have a 2 disk single user workstation so i understand that you can easily restart the system. > that is running out of room on > /usr. /home is on a second hard disk with scads of space > > > I'd like to move (with a sym link?) some of /usr which is on da1 over t= o > home which is on da0. Can anyone share some wisdom with me before I try > this?=20 i am not sure it is wisdom, but i have done it as follows several times=20 successfully ... let's assume you want to move /usr/local # mkdir /home/usr-local # cp -a /usr/local/* /home/usr-local/ # ls /home/usr-local # du -sh /home/usr-local once you are sure everything has been copied: # rm -rf /usr/local # ln -s /home/usr-local /usr/local maybe there are more elegant ways to switch, but this should work as far = as i=20 can tell ... and worked for me. hope this helps, wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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