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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