From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 22:30:36 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 8EC7837B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 22:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1A843FB1 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 22:30:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h425UV9k084204; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:30:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:30:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: nick nelson Message-ID: <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repartition /tmp? 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: Fri, 02 May 2003 05:30:36 -0000 In the last episode (May 02), nick nelson said: > I appeared to have mitakenly made my /tmp partition on this machine > way too small (missed a 0 completely.). > > I know it's not easy to repartition without reinstalling but does > anyone have any suggestions at all on how I can make the /tmp > parition bigger easily? I have a lot of data and a lot of work on > this machine, reinstalling isn't very feasible, however if i can > reinstall /tmp only, that's possible. What I end up doing is removing /tmp and symlinking it to /usr/tmp. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com