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Date:      Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:13:35 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: an almost full /?
Message-ID:  <19990403231335.A28705@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19990403200254.CC25B14C34@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <19990403200254.CC25B14C34@hub.freebsd.org>

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Kevin Weiss wrote:

> is there a way to increase my / directory?
> 
> when I type df -k i get something like
> / ...	...	...	89%
> /usr			26%
> /var			25%

You can't make it bigger, as such, but you can of course remove some
things.

 1. Make some things symlinks, like /tmp -> /usr/tmp for example.
 2. Delete old files. e.g., old kernels, and if you're on a 3.0 onwards
    system, LKMs can go from /lkm since they're no longer used if you've
    got an ELF kernel.

There probably isn't a huge amount of stuff you can do other than
that, but you shouldn't really need to write loads of stuff to /
anyway. (Except /tmp, which can be a symlink.)

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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