On Friday 05 January 2001 19:09, you wrote:
> Thanks c,
>
> I'll do that (one small newbie step at a time)...
> when backing up /home, can I simply cp to another drive then cp back, or
> will this mess up links and such?
>
> merci
>
> John
Just use cp -a in both directions and everything will be preserved.
Civileme
>
> civileme wrote:
> > 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
