What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2 separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB of free space.
I figured the thing to do is copy all the files on hda6 into hda5(my D: drive), repartition hda6 into hda6 + hda7 (I should use the rescue disk for this?), and then copy back my files from 'D:' on to 'hda6', leaving hda7 empty for future use. (I thought I read in one of the previous mailings that there is software that makes these steps unnecessary. Is this true?) Anyway, when I tried to do this: 'mount hda5 /mnt' go to 'D:/Debfiles' directory 'cp -a /usr/*' (hda6) I got the error message 'no more space left on device'. Furthermore, now when I boot up, my hda2 partition (where my /root is) shows 0 space available. When I halt or reboot I get the message: 'error can't write to etc mtab.tmp, no space left on device' Looking around I found 1 file '/proc/kcore' which had 16 MB and everything elso in '/proc' had 0 bytes. To fix the first problem, of all my space gone in hda2, I am tempted to just delete the 'proc/kcore' file. Is this the wrong thing to do? The second problem is to copy the 161 MB in hda6 to D:. I went back to D: and deleted and moved some stuff around and now have 240MB free, which should be plenty of room. But when I try again am I going to have the same problem? Is my limiting factor the size of hda2 (my root partition) or does the 'etc/mtab.tmp' file have a maximum capacity? Since I only have ~20MB free on hda2, is that the limit of what I can copy between partitions? ***** I have another problem, which I believe is a separate issue. When I first booted up the computer, (BEFORE trying to copy the 161MB) I noticed a huge file ('root/core' 21MB) that wasn't there yesterday. The last thing I've done is install the CoffeeShop Java IDE (from SFS Software) in my '/home/dixon' directory. (The instructions appeared to say that this was the proper place for it.) I also noticed a 339KB file '/etc/core'. Are these files necessary? Should they be there? Thanks for any help someone might have. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null