Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:04:46 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, MET <met@uberstats.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! Message-ID: <3D5D4CCE.3070701@owt.com> References: <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> <3.0.5.32.20020816134457.018b29d0@mail.sage-one.net>
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Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 08:13 PM 8.16.2002 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > >>>Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:00:15 -0500 >>>From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> >>>Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! >>> >>>If /usr is too lean for future use such as having enough space for >>>rebuilding the system then "mkdir /home/obj" and "rm -rf /usr/obj; ln -s >>>/home/obj /usr/obj". Can do the same thing for /usr/ports, and /usr/src, >>>altho I suggest one use "mv". >>> >>>I have moved /usr/obj and /usr/ports this way on several machines. >>>FreeBSD is quite happy with a symbolic link for these. >>> >> but you should be warned that e. g. cvs breaks if your repository >> path contains symlinks. there's bound to be more boneheaded >> software, though it might not reach the cvs level. >> >>-- >> > > It was also my understanding that "symlinks" can slow things down too..... > not sure about that, but a consideration for any directories that move a > lot of data... On my system that does buildworlds the fastest, I created 1.5 GB partitions on the 2nd and 3rd hard drives for /usr/src and /usr/obj. Each HD is on its own ATA-100 controller. I mount in them /etc/fstab as /usr/src and /usr/obj. The 1.5 GB is overkill but I am only using 10% of what was left, which means I haven't affected anything. I also did this so I could NFS mount them. Make knows the real path and builds on linked fs also have to be linked the same way on the system doing the nfs_mounting. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart Carl Sagan quote on Seti@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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