From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 13:23:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6480414E59 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:23:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11W3m3-0001bz-00; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:22:55 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: outlawtx@bga.com Cc: "Michael W. Akers" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: '/' is nearly full In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:58:01 EST." <3.0.6.32.19990927155801.015c4070@bga.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:22:55 +0200 Message-ID: <6198.938550175@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:58:01 EST, outlawtx@bga.com wrote: > If I add another 1 gig scsi hard drive to my system, can I move '/' to > that hard drive and still boot? Would it be easier to re-install FreeBSD? It would be easier to re-install FreeBSD, if easy is defined as the path requiring the least thought. :-) Have a look at _why_ your root partition is filling up. Perhaps you can move some of the stuff onto the new device, or just clean up? your clean-up will probably begin with this command du -skx / See the du(1) manpage for more details. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message