BEFORE: nilipod:~ root# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk0s1 500M 446M 50M 90% / devfs 17K 17K 0 100% /dev /dev/disk0s2 15G 71M 15G 1% /private/var Now let's create some more space by using the following commands: # mkdir /private/var/Fonts # cp -Rp /System/Library/Fonts/* /private/var/Fonts/ # mv /System/Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts.backup # ln -s /private/var/Fonts/ /System/Library/Fonts # mv /System/Library/Fonts.backup /private/var/Fonts.backup AFTER: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk0s1 500M 335M 161M 68% / devfs 17K 17K 0 100% /dev /dev/disk0s2 15G 294M 15G 2% /private/var