Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:01:45 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: John Daniel <john@cell-works.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I filled up / directory looking for a remedy Message-ID: <200004270001.e3R01ji82368@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004261035360.28712-100000@cell-works.com>
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT) John Daniel wrote:
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| now the biggest directories are kde format desktop stuff in the /root/.kde
| directory. since i put in xdm I can't and won't be logging in as root and
| using these files.
|
| can i ditch them?
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I'd say that would be fine. I'd recommend always setting up a user account
and rarely if ever login to root from the console. I use sudo for most of
my root access needs but many people are comfortable just using su.
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| I'm thinking about moving tmp to /usr and using a link.
|
| Does it make sense to do this?
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Using a symbolic link is just fine for this. My favorite way to move
hierarchies is with the pax command:
pax -rwvpe /tmp /usr
mv /tmp /tmp-
ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp
#
# spend a few minutes to make sure that everything is cool
#
rm -r /tmp-
#
# this may brake some X configs that put sockets in /tmp
# You may have to log out and log back in again
#
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| Do these steps seem correct?
|
| 1 Configure kernel with
|
| options MFS
|
| 2 Add a line
|
| in /etc/fstab
|
| I see an example in the handbook in the kernel config section but I'm not
| sure how to determine the device name to use.
|
| 3 reboot
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Your procedure seems reasonable. I might do two reboots. one after
rebuilding the kernel and one after I'd made the change to fstab.
But that's just because I'm a bit over cautious about making changes.
This is a pretty simple change but as always it's a good idea to make
backups of everything important.
Personally I like to see both / and /usr be static file systems.
It makes it easier to run consistency checks on the system. On
the other hand if you did not create a /home or a /disk/1 or some
such partition then maybe using a symbolic link into /usr is your
best bet.
chris
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