Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:35:42 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: spammesilly@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-use disk Space? Message-ID: <54db439905091314355fb65b05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef208e530509130704ec74cf2@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef208e530509130704ec74cf2@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/13/05, Daniel Gonzalez <spammesilly@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a quick question about re-apportioning disk space on my > computer (FreebSD 5.4RC2 Athlon 850 MHz 512MB RAM) > Here is the output of df -H: >=20 > REDE2SRV# df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 520M 61M 418M 13% / > devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1f 5.3G 805M 4.1G 17% /music > /dev/ad0s1e 1.5G 133k 1.4G 0% /tmp > /dev/ad1s1d 8.4G 7.0G 732M 90% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 1.5G 48M 1.3G 3% /var >=20 > My /usr partiton is almost at capacity (90%) on a separate disk > (/dev/ad1) from the rest of the other partitons. I allocated way too > much space for my /music partition (dev/ad0s1f). I don't plan on ever > using up the 4.1GB that's left over. I've been archiving (to CD) my > mp3s, oggs etc so I always have a backup. What I wanted to know is > would it be possible to reclaim some disk space under the /music > partion and link a /usr sub-partition (/usr/home) to that reclaimed > space? Hopefully I've explained myself clearly. What part of the > handbook sections could I start with? >=20 > Regards > --=20 > Dan Gonzalez You've pretty much described one solution by asking the question. You could create a directory in music (e.g. /music/home) and then create a symbolic link to it: ln -s /music/home /usr/home For most purposes, that should work (if /usr/home already exists, you might want to rename it first!). Or if you can use the entire /music volume as /home, just edit /etc/fstab and have it mounted as /home instead of /music. This will avoid any confusion caused by utilities that might not follow symbolic links by default. - Bob
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