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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:30:14 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Root File System Full
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003011124210.1034-100000@stimpy.sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000301171701.Z82538@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>

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Stuart Henderson wrote to Ryan Thompson:

> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:52:46AM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> > Stuart Henderson wrote to Rick Morel:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:22:36AM -0600, Rick Morel wrote:
> > > > Many thanks to Phil Allsopp <phil@virtek.com> and wellsian
> > > > <wellsian@caffeine.com> for super rapid replies.
> > > > 
> > > > I forgot that /etc is really  under /.
> > > 
> > > You might consider moving and symlinking it to a
> > > different partition. From someone that learned the
> > > hard way some time ago, you probably don't want to
> > > do that :-)
> > 
> > /etc to a different partition?  That won't work without lots of help.
> 
> exactly the point I was making - someone in a panic for
> disk space might not think of it and do something baaaaadddd :-)
> 

Ahh... Then I DID misunderstand the point you were trying to make; I
thought I might have.  I decided, though, that if I couldn't make perfect
sense out of what you said, some others probably wouldn't, as well.  
Thus, I posted my own dissertation on the topic for the benefit of the
split-brain thinkers among us :-)

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  Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
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