From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 04:54:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4374216A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:54:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C0343FBF for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:54:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAQCrhTS065370; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:53:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hAQCrh7S065369; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:53:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail25@bzerk.org using -f Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:53:43 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20031126125343.GA63593@ei.bzerk.org> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031125181330.01c7a288@pop.face2interface.com> <200311252339.hAPNdYu10223@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311252339.hAPNdYu10223@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: Marty Landman cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Roland Giesler Subject: Re: Resizing disk labels X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:54:14 -0000 On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:39:33PM -0500, Jerry McAllister typed: > > > > 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. Worse, the system won't even boot multiuser without /etc in the root partition. /etc/rc is run when / is all there is. /etc/fstab is read in order to see what other filesystems are to be mounted. BOOM! Ruben > ////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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"