From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 16:18:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (oddjob.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D07D37B670 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:18:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06427; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:18:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:18:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: UCTC Sysadmin Cc: Charlie Schloemer , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: root is filling up! In-Reply-To: <39EB4BBC.B84A8A9D@transbay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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