From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 28 11:32:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.bxscience.edu (voyager.bxscience.edu [167.206.32.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255A337B42C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voyager.bxscience.edu (localhost.bxscience.edu [127.0.0.1]) by voyager.bxscience.edu (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e8SIWM574057; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:32:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200009281832.e8SIWM574057@voyager.bxscience.edu> To: Neil Sedlak , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Space In-reply-to: (Your message of Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:30:53 EDT.) <20000928143053.A46042@matrix.cxi.cx> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:32:22 -0400 From: Jared Chenkin Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000928143053.A46042@matrix.cxi.cx>, Neil Sedlak writes: >On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: >> In message <200009281759.e8SHx2573258@voyager.bxscience.edu> Jared Chenkin writes: >> : I'm having some space problems on my FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE box. >> : The problem is that the previous administrator did not give >> : me alot of space on the root partition, and now its at 95% >> : and pwd_mkdb(8) and its frontends complain about lack of space (duh!) >> : I've looked through the stuff on the fliesystem, and I was wondering >> : if there is anything that I can safely move to another filesystem for >> : the time being. I was considering moving /kernel.GENERIC being that >> : I have a customized kernel which works quite well :) >A lot of people will probably come up with a lot of reason not to, but I >simply moved /tmp to /usr/tmp and then made a file system link. There are >various issues but if you have a single drive system it should work >fine. This will ease a lot of your burden as temp files have a tendency to >use a lot of space for short periods of time and will fail if the file >system with /tmp fills up. > >-- >Neil Sedlak >nwsedlak@cxi.cx Funny, alot of people told me to do that. I already have! Although i put it in /var/tmp :) Live Large, Jared Chenkin (AIM: DevNull24) Networked Systems Administrator Bronx Science Computing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message