From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 23:57:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15989 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 23:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15898 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 23:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA15903; Wed, 27 May 1998 16:26:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980527162627.H24133@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:26:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk, Cory Kempf Cc: brintm@bslnet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system full References: <199805261826.OAA27609@singularity.enigami.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ben Cohen on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:58:47PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 May 1998 at 20:58:47 +0100, Ben Cohen wrote: >> Uh, log in as root, and do the command '/bin/rm -rf /usr'? You should >> then have *plenty* of space available on /usr :-) > > Does FreeBSD have an undelete command? No. > (Is anyone familiar with the SCO OpenServer undelete command that > seems to be a sort of revision-control undelete!? Is it any good?) I'm not familiar with this command, but years ago I bought and used the Norton Tools for UNIX, which included an undelete command. It significantly slowed down the machine, and in the end I uninstalled it. > How do you de-fragment partitions? Copy them onto another partition > or disk and then copy them back? That's as good as any. Normally you'd use tape. > At what point do you begin to need to do this? I've never seen the need. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message