Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 14:41, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread Robert Huff
platanthera writes: you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. May I ask your logic here? Is this about safety, convenience, overcrowding? Robert Huff

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 17:07, Robert Huff wrote: platanthera writes: you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. May I ask your logic here? Is this about safety, convenience, overcrowding? You noticed that I accidently

Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-16 Thread Robert Huff
Phil Thomson writes: /dev/ad0s1a 260M 254M -15.3M 106%/ I'm not sure what you've done, but you have _way_ too much stuff in /. For comparison, my 5.x system: /dev/da0s1a484M118M327M27%/ Can we please see the output of du | sort -nr |

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-16 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is installed