From: "Rev. Don Kool"
Subject: Re: Cleaning up / ?
Date: 23 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT
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"Gil G." wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> My / partition is 100MB but somehow got full..
> What can I safely delete from there?
Try "find / -type f -exec rm {} \;".
That should clear your PC of unnecessary files.
> Also, is there a way to rename a partition?
> By accident I created a /temp partition, meaning to create /tmp
> Now /tmp has been created by the system. I tried to make a link
> pointing tmp to temp but tmp is never empty and I can't erase it!
> I would like temp to become tmp...
You're talking about the mount point, not the partition name. Edit
your mount table. In most UNIX systems, except for SOLARIS, it is
called "/etc/fstab". Under FreeBSD it most likely has a similar
name. Mount the partition to "/tmp" instead of "/temp".
Hope this helps,
Don
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From: "Rev. Don Kool"
Subject: Re: Cleaning up / ?
Date: 24 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT
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Chris Hedley wrote:
> "Rev. Don Kool" writes:
> > Try "find / -type f -exec rm {} \;".
> >
> > That should clear your PC of unnecessary files.
> Do *not* under any circumstances try this. Our mate Don here seems
> to think it would be "cool" to see some poor sod erase their entire
> system.
No, it will simply remove the unnecessary files. The PC will still
boot into Windows as it was designed to do.
> > You're talking about the mount point, not the partition name. Edit
> > your mount table. In most UNIX systems, except for SOLARIS, it is
> > called "/etc/fstab".
> The UNIX systems you're talking about should be using /etc/vfstab by now.
SOLARIS is the only UNIX system that uses "/etc/vfstab". It is
part of their continuing game of unnecessarily changing the names of
system files with each new release.
> > Under FreeBSD it most likely has a similar
> > name. Mount the partition to "/tmp" instead of "/temp".
> That, at least, is reasonable advice.
All my advice is reasonable, Chris.
> You learn, albeit slowly, Don.
If only I could say the same for you, Chris. If only I could say
the same for you... :-(
Hope this helps,
Don
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