On Friday 05 January 2001 01:57, you wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm confused. (Surprise).
>
> I'm new to 7.2 (and mandrake, generally), so I used the installation
> guide when deciding on partition sizes. This is what I have:
>
>
> / 492MB
> /boot 9.5MB
> /home 4.24GB
> /usr 3.17GB
> and then swap of 64MB (I think, same as RAM)
>
> The thing is, the guide suggested 300MB for /. I was greedy and used
> 492MB, but now kdf shows / as having only 99.9MB free (392 used?!).
> Ten days ago, there was 110MB free - at this rate, I'll run out of space
> on the partition.
>
> So was the 300MB a bad suggestion, or is something freaky?
> If I have to expand /, what's the best way to do it and not lose data
> (I have partition magic on a W95 partition)? and how big should I make
> it?
>
> Thanks (again!)
>
> John
The new Linux Standard base stuck htmldocs and ftp in /var. I strongly
recommend it as a separate partition (NOT a symlinked one, too many
scripts/proggies that access it do a ../ and think they will be at /.)
backup the data on /home, split it about 50/50 since most of your servers now
live on /var. make the two partitions, /home and /newvar mount points,
cp -a /var /newvar
rm -r /var -f
EITHER
umount /newvar
in /etc/fstab, edit the mount point /newvar to /var then mount /var
OR
or if you get nervous editing your filesystems table , just
ln -s /newvar /var
Civileme
