"David Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, I don't know of a safe way to transfer all of those files. I've tried > to use tar in the past, but had permision issues (things ended up being owned > by root). I could use dd, but that's a block-by-block transfer, right? So
I usually use cp -ax to copy parititons, that has never caused me problems. tar with the -p option is pretty safe as well. > Oh, and how do I boot up afterwards? I forgot to mention that there is no > floppy disk available, so I can't just boot off of a rescue floppy and rerun > lilo when everything is schootched around. A $20 floppy drive will fix that. > P.S. Of course this box is running some web services so it can't be down for > longer than about 1/2 hour. Just making things easy on me B-) Ahh, wondered why this was an ISP question, you're really likely to get more answers on debian-user. Anyway ... Do you really need the space, where? Sounds like you're using the one big root partitioning scheme. Split /tmp into it's own partition (64 MB is likely enough) ... if this really is a critical machine and you really need the extra space then just format and mount the space somwhere and create links into it as need from other locations. Fraser
