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* Giorgos Keramidas [2005-03-16 15:06 +0200]
>  > Filesystem  1K-blocks   Used  Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
>  > /dev/ad0s1a    253678  35430 197954    15%     981 32041    3%   /
>  > devfs               1      1      0   100%       0     0  100%   /dev
>  > /dev/ad0s1e    253678      6 233378     0%       3 33019    0%   /tmp
>  > /dev/ad0s1f    673024 332902 286282    54%   87038     0  100%   /usr
>  
>  You have two options, both of which involve a reinstallation:
>  
>  a) Resplit the disk giving more space to /usr.
>  b) Use a single, big root partition.


If he should not have the possibility to just wipe the entire disk to 
reinstall it (eg. this is his only disk and it is full of valuable data), 
he might be able to boot into single user, mount /usr and /tmp, and cram 
the entire contents of /usr into /tmp (using some sort of compression, e.g 
gzip) and then newfs /usr with more sensible values before restoring the 
contents from /tmp.