[GLLUG] New to FreeBSD

[STeve Andre']

Yup. +2 ;-)

When beginning with *BSD, I tell people that their first installation or
two is going to be a throw-away, and that for learning purposes, just
creating one partition, 'a' lets you concentrate on learning about the
OS and not having to worry about carving the disk up.  This is not to
be used on a real system, but why make things harder than needed?

--STeve Andre'

On 12/16/11 15:38, Richard Houser wrote:
>
> > Add a home partition...  +1
>
> On Dec 16, 2011 3:19 PM, "Thomas Driscoll" <tad001 at sunn.net 
> <mailto: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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