> I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my > CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M > for > /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND > /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and some others. I would > like > to make several partitions and use them to my best use, I just wanted to get > some recommendations from the Expert/Experienced before I partitioned this > drive. I also would like to have a few partitions set aside for CD images as I > hope to start selling Software on CD as well.
I don't know if you're willing to reinstall completely or just want to add the space, if you're willing to reinstall I would: 1) Your current hd 4 GB on / 2) New hd 5 GB on /home 3) New hd 8 GB on /usr That way you'll have more on /home, /usr, /var and /opt (both /var and /opt will be on /). If you don't want to reinstall you could set a 5 GB on /home and remount your current /home to /var or /opt (whatever you prefer). That way you'll have more on /home and on /var or /opt. Then you create the 8 GB, mount it somewhere, cp the /usr to that partition, following you mount your current /usr to /var or /opt (just the one you hadn't used) and mount that new partition to /usr. (It'll probably need a reboot because you can't umount your /usr (maybe you can after a init 1 (runlevel 1 single user), I've never tried). Ron