Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:04:57 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linking a directory to another filesystem Message-ID: <20020725230457.GB87732@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <1027634062.758.4.camel@enterprise.workgroup> References: <1027634062.758.4.camel@enterprise.workgroup>
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:54:24PM -0700, karl agee wrote: > sorta newbie question, I think, and not sure where to post it...so I put > it here. > > system: 5.0-current, lots of hard disk space. > > I am filling up / with stuff...so much so that the system is crashing > and rebooting(!) when I print. Problem seems to be that /usr directory > is located on the / filesystem when I have a /usr filesystem that has > gobs of space but not much on it. > > I want to move the /usr directory contents over and link the /usr > directory on the / filesystem to the /usr filesystem but not exactly > sure how to do it (after reading the docs) without messing things up. > Not sure if I need to soft link or hard link...etc. Hmm - it happens when printing? Is your /var just a directory in /, or on a file system of its own? If it's on /, check disk usage before you do anything else: # du -chxd1 / | sort -k2 will show you disk space used per directory in /. Of course, if /var resides on its own device, this is irrelevant. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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