From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 1 9:30:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from stimpy.sasknow.com (h139-142-245-100.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF68537C5A4 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by stimpy.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01106; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:30:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:30:14 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Stuart Henderson Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root File System Full In-Reply-To: <20000301171701.Z82538@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 and wellsian > > > > 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 :-) -- Ryan Thompson Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message