From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 9:49:28 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 B478237B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B1DF43EA3 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from GeneralP.Fault@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 16709 invoked by uid 0); 14 Oct 2002 16:49:23 -0000 Received: from pd95149d7.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO data) (217.81.73.215) by mail.gmx.net (mp013-rz3) with SMTP; 14 Oct 2002 16:49:23 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: wolfgang To: "Kirk R. Wythers" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finding disk space Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:49:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <1034613360.3270.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <1034613360.3270.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> Organization: planet earth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210141849.21104.GeneralP.Fault@gmx.net> 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 In an older episode (Monday 14 October 2002 18:35), Kirk R. Wythers wrote= : > I have a 2 disk single user workstation so i understand that you can easily restart the system. > that is running out of room on > /usr. /home is on a second hard disk with scads of space > > > I'd like to move (with a sym link?) some of /usr which is on da1 over t= o > home which is on da0. Can anyone share some wisdom with me before I try > this?=20 i am not sure it is wisdom, but i have done it as follows several times=20 successfully ... let's assume you want to move /usr/local # mkdir /home/usr-local # cp -a /usr/local/* /home/usr-local/ # ls /home/usr-local # du -sh /home/usr-local once you are sure everything has been copied: # rm -rf /usr/local # ln -s /home/usr-local /usr/local maybe there are more elegant ways to switch, but this should work as far = as i=20 can tell ... and worked for me. hope this helps, wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message