From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 12:48:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12626 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pigstuy ([207.113.85.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12615 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:48:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by pigstuy (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00414; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:46:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) X-Authentication-Warning: pigstuy: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:46:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@pigstuy Reply-To: spork To: Scott Myron cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: will this idea work? In-Reply-To: <3546A165.728C0BFA@hsonline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Scott Myron wrote: > ok, now my / filesystem is "really" small it's about 79% full with about > 6 megs left. now the only thing that really uses that filesystem now is > the /tmp. so my idea is to rm -r /tmp and then mkdir /usr/tmp then ln -s > /usr/tmp tmp (I think that's how to you do it) but if I create a > symbolic link to /usr/tmp in my / filesystem. will that work? this way > my tmp will have around 588 megs to do it's job. because sometimes when > I try to "make install" stuff it gives me errors how my / filesystem is > full.. well it's just an idea. thanks. > > I have /tmp as a link to /usr/tmp and it works fine. -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message