Re-use disk Space?
Daniel Gonzalez
spammesilly at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 15:00:03 PDT 2005
Thanks to all who resoponded. I'll probably try the latter option
after I back up any mp3 etc on that partition.
Regards
dan
On 9/13/05, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Daniel Gonzalez <spammesilly at 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > 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
>
--
Dan Gonzalez
spammesilly at gmail.com
IM: signulth
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