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On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:44, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote:
> > How big is necessary for a /usr partition?  Mine keeps filling up and
> > I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly.
> >
> > Here's my df -h readout:
> >
> > $ df -h
> > Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s3a  1008M    92M   835M    10%    /
> > /dev/ad0s2   1020M    19M  1001M     2%    /dos
> > /dev/ad0s3g   4.8G    69M   4.3G     2%    /home
> > /dev/ad0s3e   3.9G   3.9G -260.5M   107%    /usr
> > /dev/ad0s3f  1008M    27M   900M     3%    /var
> > /dev/ad0s1     24G    22G   2.9G    88%    /nt
> > procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
> > /dev/da0s1     61M    61M   632K    99%    /umass
> > $
>
> My /home is a link to /usr/home.  Isn't yours?
> If it IS (notwithstanding your creation of a /home partition), that
> would explain why you have only 69M in /home but 3.9G in /usr.

One of the suggested setups is to provide home with its own partition.
And even though you don't use it it is not so uncommon.

>
> The two partitions appear to be adjacent.  If they are, Partition Magic
> (or similar) could merge those two partitions non-destructively, and
> your problem would be solved.

This sounds like a disaster --- partition magic works with MS
partitions or in FBSD terms slices -- to the best I my knowledge it does
not know about BSD style partitions.

I'd also be very surprised if it is able to merge BSD file systems=20
non-destructively.

Malcolm Kay