[GLLUG] New to FreeBSD

[Richard Houser]

> Add a home partition...  +1
On Dec 16, 2011 3:19 PM, "Thomas Driscoll" <tad001 at sunn.net> wrote:

> You could create a symlink to another area with more space to fix/hack
> this problem. This would by you time instead of rebuilding the system
> completely. The best solution is to rebuild the system and create a good
> slice layout to best use the disk space you have at your disposal. The /usr
> directory does not normally grown unless you are installing ports based
> software packages(usually). If you have installed a good deal of ports
> packages you might be able to recover some disk space buy cleaning out the
> /usr/ports/distfiles. Again this is only a temporary fix as installing or
> upgrading packages will re-download those packages. And again you could
> symlink the distfiles directory to another area with more space.
>
> The is also the idea of adding in an additional hard drive and mounting it
> to the /usr/home to give you space for your home directories. Just some
> thing to think about.
>
> ## format
> ln -s /<new>/<localation> <username>
>
> ## example
> ln -s /mnt/newuser newuser
>
> Tad
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:46:12PM -0500, Ben Chavez wrote:
> >    Hello FreeBSD users.
> >
> >
> >
> >    A while ago I installed FreeBSD in a 14 GB partition, and got it to
> run
> >    with the help of members from this mailing list. However when I first
> >    installed didn't create a user account until later so the installation
> >    took the entire slice. Now that I have a user I keep getting a warning
> >    that my home directory has zero space for storage. I was wondering if
> >    somebody could advice on how to fix this problem.
> >
> >    I will really appreciate it.
> >
> >
> >
> >    Thank you.
> >
> >
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