From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 05:10:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5C716A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:10:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE1143D1F for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:10:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:08:43 -0600 Message-ID: <41BFC768.3010105@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:11:04 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kiffin Gish References: <000101c4e215$2cdfedc0$9900000a@ZGISH> In-Reply-To: <000101c4e215$2cdfedc0$9900000a@ZGISH> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Dec 2004 05:08:44.0056 (UTC) FILETIME=[264F6180:01C4E264] cc: 'Nikolas Britton' cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root directory filling up... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:10:45 -0000 Kiffin Gish wrote: >Wow, that seems like a lot of work. Suppose instead I choose just to >reinstall everything all over again... > > > Your choice, of course. Might be good for learning; practice is still somewhat equal to repetition. I'm not so sure that hack #1 (mv a few things from / to /usr and symlink) is really so difficult, nor a lot of work. You could move /usr/ports, /usr/src, and all of /var to your big partition right now with 7 commands in console. I'd do it in a heartbeat if I didn't want to reinstall stuff. The main problem with it --- it is exactly what I called it --- a hack --- you might even use the term "kluge". There are better ways, one of which is probably the Right Thing(tm). Quite possibly, the Right Thing(tm) is growfs(8). That's one of the problems with asking about things like this on "newbies@". There are only a few of us around, and we aren't the most experienced kids on the block. Probably if you'd go over to questions and say "I partitioned my HDD thus-and-so and now I find that I don't have enough space on /" you'd get some good advice about doing the Right Thing(tm) and only a couple of "RTFM" responses... >What stuff do I need to save and restore later so that I don't have to >reinstall all my applications all over again (Internet, mail, gnome, >x-windows)? > >Like the /etc/* , etc. Is there a standard way to do this? > > If you've got someplace to put the stuff, dump(8) and restore(8) are probably the tools of choice. Kevin Kinsey