From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 2 11:13:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ux.accesscom.net (ux.accesscom.net [204.181.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 522BE37B522 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:13:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlistbsd@icorp.net) Received: from unknown(204.181.188.140) by ux(smtpd 2.1.2) with SMTP id smtp009050; Thu, 2 Mar 00 12:19:12 -0600 Message-ID: <38BEB02E.C80ED801@icorp.net> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 12:17:18 -0600 From: James Reply-To: james@icorp.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Henderson Cc: Rick Morel , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root File System Full References: <2.2.32.20000301142236.006a3810@mail.morelr.com> <20000301144255.Q82538@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> Content-Length: 846 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stuart Henderson wrote: > 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 :-) Doh! I tried that when I first got into Unix. Big mistake. The partitions wouldn't mount because /etc/fstab was moved to a secondary partition and couldn't be found during the boot process! It was loads of fun trying to fix.. Whenever I notice that disk space is getting tight, I run: find / -size +5000000c -print -ls this gives me a list of any file 5MB or larger - often helps to track down balooning files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message