From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 17: 0:35 2002 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 B193137B401 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA24D43E6E for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7GNtBlt002764; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:55:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7GNtALQ002763; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:55:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:55:10 -0500 From: David Kelly To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: MET , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add more space to the /usr partition || DUMB ! Message-ID: <20020816235510.GA2737@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <002801c2454b$60fbbe90$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> <20020816180015.GC1946@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20020816181303.GJ389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020816201739.GA2299@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020816201739.GA2299@grumpy.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 03:17:39PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:13:03PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > 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. > > Poking around I don't currently have /usr/src or /usr/ports symlinked > elsewhere but know I have done it in the past, and /usr/ports is a > symlink in the one backup I have under my fingertips. > > And FWIW, /home/ncvs is a symlink on this machine. Cvsup has no problems > updating it and CVS has no problems sucking data out of it. Am moving a > /usr/ports/ right now and will see what happens. # mv /usr/ports /usr4/ports # ln -s /usr4/ports /usr/ports # cd /usr/ports # cvs update Worked just fine. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message