From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 06:03:53 2004 Return-Path: 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 D012216A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:03:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8564943D5C for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:03:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iAT63Xip013566; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:03:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:03:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kevin Smith Message-ID: <20041129060333.GB5518@dan.emsphone.com> References: <41AAB892.70707@adelphia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41AAB892.70707@adelphia.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving ports to another file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:03:53 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 28), Kevin Smith said: > After installation and setting up of my BSD system for a while, I've > come to realize that I probably should have organized my disk a bit > differently and I have a smaller root file system then I would have > liked. I may have also created a separate /usr file system, but I > have /usr in the root file system. > > The /usr/ports can take up a lot of space and I'm wondering if there > are limitations to having ports live in a another files system with a > symbolic link from /usr/ports to a ports directory in another file > system. No limitations at all. You can even symlink it over NFS to another machine if you want (set WRKDIRPREFIX to a local path in /etc/make.conf though, to speed up builds). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com