From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 23 10: 6:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ram6.com (mail.ram6.com [63.194.8.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BD637B419 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:06:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: RE: disk space question Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:06:33 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <95000AEE5C97FA40ADA5EECF715BAEE4421C@mail.ram6.com> Disposition-Notification-To: "Richard Maher" X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4712.0 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Topic: disk space question Thread-Index: AcGLmi0Xw+21IlVATx6keoyP6idnSwAPulBw From: "Richard Maher" To: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks Freddie. This info really helps. Its my first Unix install and I am still experimenting. Pulled the install over the net using boot floppies. It went smooth. The instructions where clear. And I was blown away at the way it resolved missing dependencies by downloading them from various urls maintained by different groups or individuals! > However, there are several issues with=20 > unions and it is not recommended. I will avoid them. > I hope you didn't include /usr as part=20 > of your / partition. No I did not since I choose Auto when=20 partitioning at install time. Thanks Again, Richard ps. I will make sure next time that I post to freebsd-questions instead. -----Original Message----- From: Freddie Cash [mailto:fcash@bigfoot.com] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 2:12 AM To: Richard Maher Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk space question > I ran out of space on the boot disk and I need more room for /usr. Is > it possible to combine two slices from two different hard disks and > mount them to the same point? If not, what else can be done? Theoretically, you *can* mount two different partitions to the same=20 mount point using unionfs. However, there are several issues with=20 unions and it is not recommended. Instead, cd to /usr and do a "du -h --max-depth=3D1" and figure out = which=20 directories are taking up the most space. Consider mounting those=20 directories off the other disk, or moving it to a different partition=20 and creating symlinks pointing back to where it used to be. I hope you didn't include /usr as part of your / partition. If you make only two partitions (three if you include swap), you should *always*=20 have / and /usr as different partitions. Everything can be moved to=20 /usr if need be (/home --> /usr/home, /var --> /usr/var, etc) to make=20 more room in /. In the future, post technical-type questions like this to freebsd- questions. This is not the right list. Afterall, do you really want a=20 bunch of newbies answering your technical questions? :) Cheers, Freddie PhoenixTek Consulting fcash@bigfoot.com Unix / Networking Services (250) 314-4029 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message