On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 16:42, Tim Willis wrote: > I've forgotten the command line for viewing all the partitions and their > sizes. > > Also, I think I've screwed up the partitions on my Dell server, for some > reason, / is only about 500mb.
/ shouldn't really be bigger than 500mb, imho. > > Thanks, > -- > J. Tim Willis > “A Computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.” > ------------------------------------------------- > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML > \ / email and proprietary format > X attachments. > / \ > ------------------------------------------------- > Have you been used by Microsoft today? > Choose your life. Choose freedom. > Choose LINUX. > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > I don't remember setting it this way, I > thought I set / to fill the rest of the free space, which was over > 150gig. You should use /home for the rest of the disk, imho (again). Seperating data from operating system allows you to manage more effectively. > I installed Real Server into /realserver, and was trying to > archive some pretty big real media files there, thinking I had the full > 150g to work with, and found out that I didn't. > > I guess I have two options, remove the /realserver installation, and > install it somewhere else, or link the archive directories under > /realserver to another path where there's more size? I install 3rd party software into /usr/local. If you make that a separate partition then you can preserve data and applications over reinstalls. > > Still, I don't know why / would be so small. Frankly, I'm leaning on > re-installing instead of linking. Something in me doesn't like the > convoluted-ness of linking directories...anyone else have any better > ideas? I'd reinstall and have a sensible partioning scheme. Here is mine:- Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 264269 155768 94857 63% / /dev/md0 69904 26080 40215 40% /boot /dev/md5 102734904 54925236 42590968 57% /home /dev/md2 8269900 4204272 3645540 54% /usr /dev/md3 4142572 3468168 463968 89% /usr/local /dev/md4 1043388 200836 789548 21% /var Total: 144418149K [ 141033.35M / 137.73G ] Used: 82003840K [ 80081.88M / 78.20G ] Free: 55077900K [ 53787.01M / 52.53G ] But I'm not claiming that it is sensible........ :-) hih [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
