From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 6: 7:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.abs.adelphia.net (smtprelay.abs.adelphia.net [64.8.20.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D03437B419 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 06:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there ([63.88.159.67]) by smtprelay2.abs.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GK7Z5500.S6J; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:07:53 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gerald A.Speak Reply-To: gaspeak@va.prestige.net To: Justin Stanford , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading HDD space on existing installation.. ideas? Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:07:52 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010925130755.7D03437B419@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I know this isn't really the answer to your question just a suggestion for a temporary fix. I am assuming that you make use of the port system to install software. Have you gone through /usr/ports/distfiles and removed the old/un-needed distfiles? That may help clear up some space, also look for any *.core files that may be laying around. Speak On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:22 am, Justin Stanford wrote: > Hi, > > My current workstation is running FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE, and resides on a > 10.2gb HDD. > > It looks like this: > > /dev/ad0s2a 48M 35M 9.2M 79% / > /dev/ad0s2f 6.8G 5.8G 537M 92% /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 19M 15M 2.5M 86% /var > > ad0s1 is the first partition on the drive, which contains Win98se. > > Now, as you can see, /usr is running out of space quite fast.. during > today's general worktime I hit -68.5M and realised that I am in need of an > HDD upgrade for some more space. > > Now, the problem presents itself in that, I have been using this > workstation since 4.0-RELEASE (and have been tracking 4.x-STABLE via > cvsup), and it is nothing trivial for me to just reinstall a fresh FreeBSD > and start over -- my machine has years of configuration, software > installation, etc, behind it, so I need to find some way to move to a new, > bigger HDD, while still exactly preserving my system.. not just /usr, > everything, like /etc, /var/, and so on. > > Various suggestions have been made, but I'm not sure what the best route > is to follow.. any suggestions, anyone? > > Many thanks in advance, > Justin > > PS: Kindly CC me any answers as I am not subscribed to the questions > list. If this question is not suitable for this list, kindly forward it to > the appropriate one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message