Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:11:50PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > >> That's what I'm doing. But is it possible to increase the size for >> apt-get upgrade and apt-get install? Right now I can use that 5G for >> personal use but for the main thing like in /usr what's the best way >> to make use of that 5G? >> >> Any good website showing how to do add space at multiple points in the >> file system? >> >> > > > Put a filesystem on it (e.g. ext3), mount it under /mnt, cp -a or rsync > (or even use mc) everything under /usr, then unmount it from /mnt and > mount it as /usr. If it works, unmount it, change /etc/fstab, remove > everything under /usr and reboot.
harland christofferson wrote: why would you need to reboot. wouldn't deleting the mount point from /etc/mtab and running mount -a work instead? > > Your main partition filesystem will now have additional free space > equivalanet to the size of /usr. > To add this space at multiple points in the filesystem: * Use fdisk (or your favorite partitioner) to remove hda1 * Recreate hda1 as an extended partition * Create as many logical partitions within the extended partition as you need * Mount these logical partitions wherever you need them in the filesystem -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]