From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 23 2:11:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ocis.ocis.net (ocis.ocis.net [209.52.173.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7209D37B425 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:10:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from phoenix (host64.wireless.kamloops.net [64.114.144.93]) by ocis.ocis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA02100; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:10:53 -0800 From: "Freddie Cash" Organization: PhoenixTek Consulting To: "Richard Maher" Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:12:02 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: disk space question Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3C253D72.12601.6D48D66@localhost> In-reply-to: <95000AEE5C97FA40ADA5EECF715BAEE45E51@mail.ram6.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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