Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:39:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: MLandman@face2interface.com (Marty Landman) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing disk labels Message-ID: <200311252339.hAPNdYu10223@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031125181330.01c7a288@pop.face2interface.com> from "Marty Landman" at Nov 25, 2003 06:15:08 PM
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> > At 07:42 AM 11/25/2003, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > >3) Try to identify subdirectories containing a lot of data within the > > filesystem which is too small, move them by mv to a filesystem with > > enough free space and symlink them back (ln -s) to the old location. > > But do not move the whole /etc directory from the root to another > > filesystem! > > Newbie question here. Is the reason you don't suggest mv then ln -s for > /etc because it is accessed very frequently so it would incur the most > overhead to make this choice? No. It is because it is necessary to have /etc stuff there in times such as single user when only the root (/) filesystem is/can be mounted. So, if it was stuck somewhere else it would be a problem. ////jerry > > Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 > Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site > Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml >
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