Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:18:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: UCTC Sysadmin <support@transbay.net> Cc: Charlie Schloemer <charlie@infoworks.net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: root is filling up! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010161618000.97815-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <39EB4BBC.B84A8A9D@transbay.net>
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I missed the first part of this thread, but *WHY* are you running netscape and gimp as root!?!?!? On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, UCTC Sysadmin wrote: > Make a symbolic link from /root to the user space for .netscape and nsmail and nsnews, > and .gimp* and anything else that eats space. > > Make / a big partition. > > Make something other than /root root's home directory (having /root the home dir > means you have root's home dir even if /usr and /var aren't mounted, but if /var > and /usr aren't mounted you're probably doing maintenance anyway and should have > what you need in other / directories - /bin, /sbin. > > > 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
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