On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030729 09:20]: > > > > > I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. > > > > > My current situation is > > > > > > > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > > > /dev/hde7 5.9G 5.3G 288M 95% / > > > > > /dev/hde5 5.9G 2.7G 3.3G 46% /Data > > > > > /dev/hde6 5.7G 452M 5.3G 8% /Graphics > > > > > /dev/hde8 1012M 7.7M 953M 1% /boot > > > > > /dev/hde10 5.8G 33M 5.5G 1% /holding > > > > > /dev/hde9 9.7G 4.5G 5.3G 47% /home > > > > > /dev/hdf1 5.3G 3.3G 1.8G 65% /mnt/Mdk9_0 > > > > > /dev/hdf6 3.9G 2.2G 1.7G 57% /mnt/OldData > > > > > /dev/hdf7 6.7G 5.0G 1.7G 75% /mnt/OldHome > > > > > /dev/hde1 3.9G 1.8G 2.2G 46% /mnt/windows > > > > ... > > > > looking at this more closely, what I would do is:
This is /exactly/ how I'd do it as well. I'll just expand on a few details of Jack's excellent methodology, for clarity's sake. > > telinit 1 > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > umount /holding > > vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. > > mount /usr Note that this mounts your new "copy" of /usr right over the old one; the original files still exist and occupy space in /, but are now hidden. Only the new copies (on the former /holding partition) are seen and used by the system. The originals are still there, should you need to revert to them. > > telinit 5 > > > > Then see if everything still works. If it does, > > > > telinit 1 > > umount /usr This "unhides" the original files in the "old" /usr. > > rm -rf /usr/* This removes the old copies of the original /usr files, leaving the /usr directory empty, and now merely a mount point. > > mount /usr > > telinit 5 > > holding is slightly smaller than /, but I could make a new partition, > say 10GB and then do something similar. Your /holding partition is already an excellent size for /usr - you don't need 10G for that. And once /usr is out of /, you'll have plenty of room there, too. I'd save any new partitions for data or other distros; /usr doesn't grow all that much, really - I'll bet that it's about 4G now, and that's a fairly fully loaded /usr. Just MHO. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley
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