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>
>
> Over time more and more things tend to get added to / (compare the
> amount of stuff on the root FS now with the 2.2 days). I'd suggest
> making it say 100M and leaving yourself the room to expand.
>
> For example, here are my root filesystem sizes on two of my machines:
>
> /dev/da0s1a      99183    62148    29101    68%    /
>
> /dev/ad0s2a      99183    79174    12075    87%    /
>
> These are somewhat bloated from containing a few other
> non-FreeBSD-default things, but you get the idea.
>

Problem is, I already have a fully functional mail server running for our
company and can not take it down for any period of time.

I guess I could make a symbolic link for /tmp to /usr/tmp, and link the
root directory as well.  I think it should be ok if I link the tmp directory.






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