From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 1 02:09:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21240 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 02:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21235 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 02:08:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16170; Fri, 1 May 1998 02:08:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip216.sjc.primenet.com(206.165.96.216), claiming to be "foo.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd016156; Fri May 1 02:08:48 1998 Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA02603; Fri, 1 May 1998 01:42:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 01:42:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805010842.BAA02603@foo.primenet.com> To: zamy27@hsonline.net Subject: Re: will this idea work? Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: <3546A165.728C0BFA@hsonline.net> From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >ok, now my / filesystem is "really" small it's about 79% full with about >6 megs left. now the only thing that really uses that filesystem now is >the /tmp. so my idea is to rm -r /tmp and then mkdir /usr/tmp then ln -s >/usr/tmp tmp (I think that's how to you do it) but if I create a >symbolic link to /usr/tmp in my / filesystem. will that work? this way >my tmp will have around 588 megs to do it's job. because sometimes when >I try to "make install" stuff it gives me errors how my / filesystem is >full.. well it's just an idea. thanks. Yes, this will work. -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message