Eric Budinger wrote: > Hey All, > > Well I got my box backup and working. Now here is my other problem. I > have only 7.9 megs left on /dev/hda1 which is my root... my /home has > over 300 megs. I have a several hundred meg hard drive sitting here > that I want to install and run the programs off that. What would be > easier? Taking my entire /home and moving it to the new hard drive and > re-partitioning my box or what? Any tips? Ideas?Etc? Thanks a ton! > > Eric > Well surgery on / is very difficult, because you cannot unmount it from a running system. You have several options...
Method A: If /usr is a subdirectory of / instead of a separately mounted partition, you can move that to the second disk if there is room--Here's how: 1. Put in your second disk 2. boot 3. when you get to the GUI run Mandrake Control Center=>Hardware=>MountPoints 4. When diskdrake comes up, save your partition table to floppy and make a partition on the second disk called /spusr ,,, When you exit, make sure you answer the "save changes to /etc/fstab with a yes, and also make sure you format and mount the partition. 5. after exiting diskdrake, bring up a terminal and $ su password(your root password) # cp -a /usr/* /spusr # kedit /etc/fstab change the line where /spusr is defined to /usr save and exit # mkdir /oldusr # mv /usr /oldusr # umount /spusr # mount /usr Almost done--now recover the space # rm -r /oldusr -f And now you should have much roon in / Method B: It may be that there isn't sufficient room on the new drive or that /usr is already separated. Either... 1. Make room for / by moving those things right after it (by Method A) 2. Install the rpm ext2resize from your distribution disks using Software Manager 3. In a terminal as root run the command ext2end / +(blocks to add) (this can be done while it is live and mounted) OR separate /var from / which will also create space (method A) Almost any other moves will require a reinstallation. Civileme
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