From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 20: 9: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.dynamic-cast.com (r175-5-dsl.sea.lightrealm.net [216.122.5.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DF337B71F for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:09:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Received: from chillipepper (chillipepper.dynamic-cast.com [192.168.1.1]) by matrix.dynamic-cast.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2T48tf12469; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Message-ID: <006b01c0b805$fec62680$0101a8c0@chillipepper> From: "Hervey Wilson" To: "Ryan Thompson" Cc: References: Subject: Re: How much space for /usr ? Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:09:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > Like an earlier poster, I am a FreeBSD newbie in the process of > > migrating my home server away from Linux. > > Great! Welcome to FreeBSD. > > > It's been an interesting experience, sometimes frustrating, > > If it wasn't a bit frustrating/challenging at times, it wouldn't be nearly > as rewarding when you figure it out. > :) True. The more I dig in the more comfortable I feel about the switch from Linux. There were some areas of the ports that I wasn't sure about, like finding out when an installed port has changed, but then I found a little script called 400.status-pkg... So far, everything has gone very smoothly. > > Of course, you could always move /usr/ports to /home/ports. > Yep, I've symlinked /usr/ports to /home/ports. My thanks to you and Philip Hallstrom for your advice ! Hervey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message