On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:16:48 -0500, "Richard Schiavo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello; > I am installing Mandrake 8.1 on a system built of spare parts (low finances). > This will be a single user system. > > I have an FIC VA-503+ Motherboard > AMD K6-3 450 Mhz. CPU > 196 meg SDRAM > > I have installed 3 hard drives; > > 1-545 meg partitioned as: > hda1 / (250Meg) native Linux type > hda5 SWAP (164Meg) swap type > hda6 /var (104 Meg) native Linux type > > 1-425 meg partioned as: > hdb1 /home (200 Meg) native Linux type > hdb5 /xxx (200 + Meg,) <----- would like to use the remainder of this > drive for an additional /usr partition > > 1-630 meg partitioned as: > hdc1 /usr (600+ Meg) native Linux type <-- I've used up all this space > with installed Apps. > > My problem is I need to install the Kernel-source and all of the support files > that will allow me to compile an Aureal audio card driver but there is just > not enough room on hdc1 which is where these additional apps want to get > installed. Sure would have been nice if the Aureal driver was built as an > ".rpm" file ready to install WITHOUT having to compile anything. > > HOW can I add an additional /usr partition as proposed on hdb5 ? > I noticed the hard drive partitioning utility only lets me select ONE of ANY > MOUNT POINT even if that mount is on a different physical drive. > If I try to define another mount point of the same name it puts up a message > that tells me "You already have a /xxx mount point" ! > > How can I span multiple physical drives to expand my " /usr " partition ??? > > > - Rick
The best way would be to use LVM, but this requires a repartitioning of your drive (which means that you'd lose your data). A simpler (but messier) way would be to use symlinks to move a directory to another partition. For example, you can move the content of /usr/lib to another partition and then use a symlink in /usr to point to it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I wrote code that works. I didn't test it, but the discussion is closed. It might have syntactic problems, but it does work. Better than any kernel extension ever would. End of story." -- Linus Torvalds
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