Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:48:38 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>, "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Changing partitions or slices Message-ID: <385EEA86.AF585AB6@twave.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912202309220.38201-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Walter Brameld wrote: > >> I imagine that would work (level zero dumps, though!). However, I believe that > >> you first should analyze why your / fills up. When I started this a couple of > >> years ago I used /root just as any other account, and since it is located in /, > >> the latter filled up. Remedy was to keep next to nothing in /root, but use the > >> toor account for storage, where toor lives in /home/toor. > > That's odd. My 'toor' account has the same directory as root. Do i need > to make a special entry in my groups file to correct this? > > >> > >> Another early incident made me use symlinks for /var and /tmp, they are now on > >> my /usr partition. Having a small /var gave printing problems when the spool > >> file was too large and a small /tmp filled up during > >> /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb, which is run on a weekly basis. > >> > >Yeah, I learned some of the "How not to's". I haven't gotten a handle on symlinks > >yet. That's what caused me to trash my system. Guess I linked in the wrong > >direction, as some of my files seemed to simply disappear. Oh well. > > Same thing happened to me. I lost /var, including my pkg database, of > course, so i opted to reinstall. I learned my lesson. But just recently, > i correctly symlinked /var and /tmp to /usr... and it worked. I find that > for a newbie, using midnight commander simplifies such procedures greatly. > > -jm I've heard Midnight Commander mentioned a number of times now. What/where is it? Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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