Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 14:54:49 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Peter Panopoulos <pornopete@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help Message-ID: <20000702145448.F3842@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000702203731.68923.qmail@hotmail.com>; from pornopete@hotmail.com on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 08:37:31PM %2B0000 References: <20000702203731.68923.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 08:37:31PM +0000, Peter Panopoulos wrote: > My / dir is full. I did not initially allocate enough space to it. Is > their a way for me to give it more space without having to disturb the any > data? My df reads as follows: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad3s1a 49583 45631 -14 100% / > /dev/ad3s1f 9830259 1809753 7234086 20% /usr > /dev/ad3s1e 19815 4431 13799 24% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Uh, hi, pornopete. As people have mentioned, there is no way to resize partitions without data loss. The better option is to figure out what is filling up your / partition and delete it or move it. I've been working this lil' drive on my notebook PC pretty hard, and I do just fine with this, [292:~] df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 29751 23928 3443 87% / /dev/ad0s1e 679439 543553 81531 87% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc My root partion is really small. As long as I don't try to keep too many kernels in /, I'm fine. How to keep down the size? People fill up /root, but that frequently means that they are probably working as root too much anyway. Don't build software in /root for example, do it in /usr/local. Another biggie is /tmp. Watch that does not fill. Depending on your needs, mount another partition on it or symlink it somewhere else are good choices. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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