How about moving the /home partition to the empty space and creating a
sym/hard link to the new area?
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Chopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] /home partition/mount troubles
> At 04:28 PM 8/20/99 -0400, I wrote:
>
> >Do you have any free space on the drive?
>
> Yes I do...995mb left on the Linux partition..
>
> Why could I not set it to something other than 7mb for the /home partion??
>
> > If so, you could use Disk Druid to
> >set the /home partition to be growable, therefore filling whatever free
> >space you have left
>
> I tried that last night...actually tried setting it to 500mb and it would
> not let me...all the way down to 10mb and still no luck....it would only
> accept 7mb.
>
> As well I did as you suggested and toggled the "grow to fill disk"...but
> that did not seem to work either...as of today the /home partition is 100%
> full...can't even check my mail :-/
>
> I'm sure I seen a post somewhere...maybe Deja news talking about something
> similar...
>
> As well in Disk Druid...it will not let me create any other mount points
> except /home...I tried setting a few mount points.../usr..etc...and it
> would not let me...only a 7mb /home mount point.
>
> ...strange ...
>
> Anyone run across this before??
>
> - thanks -
>
> --
> best regards
> -michael
>
> Michael Chopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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