From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 9:44:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D81537B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A2143EAA for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from spiral (spiral.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9EGicU2006041; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:44:38 +0100 (IST) From: "Barry Byrne" To: "Kirk R. Wythers" , Subject: RE: finding disk space Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:44:37 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <1034613360.3270.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> X-WBT-Authenticated-User: bb X-Scanned-By: slate/MIMEDefang 2.21 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk: You don't say which direcories you wish to move but how about something like this (assuming you were moving /usr/local): mkdir /home/usr-local cd /usr/local tar cf - . | ( cd /home/usr-local ; tar xvf - ) mv /usr/local /usr/local.old ln -s /home/usr-local /usr/local when you determine that everything is working fine. You could delete the /usr/local.old to free up the space. Cheers, Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kirk R. Wythers > Sent: 14 October 2002 17:36 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: finding disk space > > > I have a 2 disk single user workstation that is running out of room on > /usr. /home is on a second hard disk with scads of space > > Here's df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 80590 57338 16806 77% / > /dev/da1s1g 7971462 729998 6603748 10% /home > /dev/da1s1f 257998 4992 232368 2% /tmp > /dev/da0s1e 8406014 7434842 298692 96% /usr > /dev/da1s1e 257998 42618 194742 18% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > linprocfs 4 4 0 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc > > I'd like to move (with a sym link?) some of /usr which is on da1 over to > home which is on da0. Can anyone share some wisdom with me before I try > this? My original thoughts were to keep /usr and /home on different > disks to help performance. > > thanks, > > Kirk > -- > Kirk R. Wythers email: kwythers@umn.edu > University of Minnesota tel: 612.625.2261 > Department of Forest Resources fax: 612.625.5212 > Saint Paul, MN 55108 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message