Because we are in a little town (wide spot in road) the DSL is not the most reliable. That is why I down loaded the 8 disks from another source and wanted to update systems to SL 5.5. This install try was an update and not a new installation. There have been a lot of additions to this system, for doing FFT, Power Spectral Density, and a lot of signal processing. Unfortunately /usr has expaned beyond our first guess and /usr/local is almost empty. Since these may not be adjacent partitions. Is there anyway to expand /usr and shrink /usr/local.
Thanks for the insight. Larry Linder On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:32, you wrote: > Larry Linder wrote: > > When installing SL5.5 over SL5.4 about mid way into the Disk 2 I get an > > Error message to REBOOT. > > 204 Meg on /mnt/sysimage/usr > > > > When I look at /mnt it is empty after reboot. > > My guess is that update ran out of disk space, and the the sysimage/usr > > is removed after ERROR is detected and REBOOT message is displayed. > > > > Is there anyway to change the location of sysimage/usr to some other disk > > on the system? > > > > The sda? contains all the system directories and is 36 G, about 1/2 of it > > is uncommitted. /usr is 8G and 94% full. Other directories have at > > least a G of spare space. > > > > I need to change partition sizes but hate to waste a lot of time > > guessing. > > > > Thank You > > Larry Linder > > Hi Larry, > One quick question before I proceed. Are you doing a real "upgrade" or > an "install" > An "upgrade" is where SL 5.4 stays there and you just update the > packages in it. If that is the case, using the installer isn't the > recommended way of updating it. It is much easier to to an upgrade via > yum. http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x > > An "install" is where you wipe and reformat everything except maybe your > home and data partitions. > > I am going to assume that you are doing a "install" or SL 5.5 over a > previously installed SL 5.4. > > If you are doing this, then you *need* to reformat the partitions that > do not contain your home area or data. Otherwise the install starts > adding to what is already there, and as you saw, it can fill up. > > Patitions you should format if you are doing an install. > > / > /usr > /var > /boot > > As Steve said in a previous email, if you can fit everything onto / > there is often no reason to create a /usr. Take that space and add it to / > > Hopefully this is enough information, along with Steve's, to get you going > > Troy