Re: [newbie] Drive points / and /home (resize existing MDK partitions?)
On June 25, 2003 03:16 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:14:25 -0400 when you install something, ie. through rpm, you are installing to the system dir, or /. Thats what i though, so for me /home doesent need to be that big. Ya, yer gonna need more space. You have a couple of options beside reinstalling I probably will end up reinstalling, When i do will i have to worry about MBR problems or will lilo take care of it for me. I dont want to loose access to XP. I just dont have enough cash for a new slave drive yet. My advice, get rid of XP, use the space for something safer, stabler, more useful, etc. , but then I am a zealot. :) The only reason i keep windows is for work, access and filemaker database and my old scanner is not supported, well its not old theres just no linux drivers for it. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Jun 25 20:58:07 EDT 2003 20:58:07 up 8:55, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.01 Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Drive points / and /home
I am dual booting XP and Mandrake 9.1 on diferent drives. My mandrake drive is a 5 gig drive. When i installed i opted for the default format of / and /home and swap. Now when i do df -h i have only 153 MB left but /home has not changed ad remains at 1.6 GB. Can i convert some of this to / safely and will it give me back some room to work with? How do i do this ? with diskdrake ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Jun 25 12:56:09 EDT 2003 12:56:09 up 53 min, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.05 Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? -- Paul Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Drive points / and /home
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:02:40 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am dual booting XP and Mandrake 9.1 on diferent drives. My mandrake drive is a 5 gig drive. When i installed i opted for the default format of / and /home and swap. Now when i do df -h i have only 153 MB left but /home has not changed ad remains at 1.6 GB. Can i convert 153 MB left on which partition? post the exact output of df -h so we can see what you see. some of this to / safely and will it give me back some room to work with? How do i do this ? with diskdrake ? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Drive points / and /home
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 7:14 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 2.6G 2.3G 145M 95% / /dev/hdb6 1.7G 126M 1.6G 8% /home /dev/hda1 29G 19G 11G 64% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]# as you can see hdb1 or / is getting smaller everytime i install somthing, hdb6 or /home does not change. You could make one of the larger trees a symbolic link to /home/swhatever. Favorites would be /usr/local /var /usr/local would be fairly easy, but if you install everything from RPMs it may be only small at the moment. If you install from tarballs then it would be perfect. /var is tricky to move, but it can be done. Any experts out there like to say if /var is required at boot-time in the same way that /boot and /bin are? I don't *think* it is. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
