From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 11 8:25:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CB237B43F for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C3D23282; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:49:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112483281; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:49:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:49:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Matt Bettinger Cc: 'freebsd-newbies' Subject: Re: more questions! In-Reply-To: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC198EFB@FIN_SYN> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You'd be better off asking questions in -questions. -newbies is not a Tech support forum. :) You might also want to check http://www.freebsd.org/ and go to the mailing list archives for a look answers that have been already give for this same question from other people. Rick On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Matt Bettinger wrote: > > Mom always told me there was no such thing as a stupid question so here > goes. > > When i first installed FreeBSD 4.1 i was just playing around with it and > used the defaults in the installed.. defaults partitions and such... one > thing led to another now i pretty much rely on this machine for all of my > home connections/communications.. everything. Problem is my root / is near > 80% full. This is on a 20 gig HDD and i think the default / was set to like > 50 megs. > > Question : is there any way short of reinstalling fbsd or buying a second > HDD to increase/repartition my / ? > > I have done some research on the matter and have only found a couple of > articles both involving a second hdd. Am i screwed or what? I guess i can > clean out some temp files and such but that is really a temporary solution. > > thanks guys. > > Matt in Houston > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message