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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:32:22 -0400
From:      Jared Chenkin <chenkinj@voyager.bxscience.edu>
To:        Neil Sedlak <nwsedlak@cxi.cx>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Space 
Message-ID:  <200009281832.e8SIWM574057@voyager.bxscience.edu>
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:30:53 EDT.) <20000928143053.A46042@matrix.cxi.cx> 

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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
<chenkinj@bxscience.edu>
(AIM: DevNull24)
Networked Systems Administrator
Bronx Science Computing



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