Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Baron a écrit : Disk has one region (that I know of) with errors. I can partition so this region is not used. Is there some utility to repair it? Badblocks, for example. But success is not guaranteed. It may damage the disk even more. Is this sickness like to spread? Possibly. --

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-28 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 27 July 2014 23:45:44 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: My older 1-terra drive has bad blocks. I can partition around them and use it but one a disk has begun to ... well, maybe best to junk it. Wipe and recycle it. Disk has one region (that I know of) with

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-28 Thread David Christensen
On 07/28/2014 01:13 AM, David Baron wrote: Disk has one region (that I know of) with errors. I can partition so this region is not used. Is there some utility to repair it? Is this sickness like to spread? You first have to determine *precisely* what is wrong with the drive. That requires the

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-28 Thread David Baron
On Monday 28 July 2014 17:38:14 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Disk has one region (that I know of) with errors. I can partition so this region is not used. Is there some utility to repair it? Is this sickness like to spread? You first have to determine *precisely*

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-27 Thread David Baron
Question: How do I tell grub about new /, new /boot, etc.?? Seems to be mostly automatic with little documentation. Or do I go back to lilo which I at least know how to configure :-)? If you're mucking about with an existing system and need to update the existing grub installation,

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iul 14, 11:39:52, David Baron wrote: The procedure would be simple and bulletproof: Copy / to new partition (what is the best way to do this, preserving symlinks and other properties, not running afoul of /sys and such?). rsync -ax To minimize downtime you can take advantage of

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-27 Thread PaulNM
On 07/27/2014 04:48 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 27 iul 14, 11:39:52, David Baron wrote: The procedure would be simple and bulletproof: Copy / to new partition (what is the best way to do this, preserving symlinks and other properties, not running afoul of /sys and such?). rsync -ax

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iul 14, 05:11:25, PaulNM wrote: On 07/27/2014 04:48 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 27 iul 14, 11:39:52, David Baron wrote: The procedure would be simple and bulletproof: Copy / to new partition (what is the best way to do this, preserving symlinks and other properties,

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Baron a écrit : Might be interesting if there were a utility/script to remove from /lib/modules everything not used on the current system. You can build and install your own custom kernel from source instead of the one provided by the distribution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-27 Thread David Christensen
On 07/26/2014 12:11 PM, David Baron wrote: My older 1-terra drive has bad blocks. I can partition around them and use it but one a disk has begun to ... well, maybe best to junk it. Wipe and recycle it. I have an older 80g IDE will just keeps going and going. / can go there is I cannot

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-26 Thread David Baron
It's actually /lib/modules that takes up the space, and of course this has to be under / for booting. I have a server in this position, which had an adequately-sized / and separate /usr and /var when installed. 350MB used to be more than enough for a / which didn't contain /home, /usr or

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iul 14, 22:11:52, David Baron wrote: OK, the UI of the installer is problematic. I knew what I wanted to do but could not find a way to do it. If it will respect fdisk or parted partitions, well ... the next time. It will, but you still have to use the very same UI to tell the

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-26 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 07/26/2014 03:11 PM, David Baron wrote: Might be interesting if there were a utility/script to remove from /lib/modules everything not used on the current system. Only a tiny minority of the modules are actually needed. There may be a downside to that: your disk is then bootable only on

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-25 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 24 July 2014 22:49:01 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Going by the subject, I'd say wipe your system drive and do another install, using what you have learned to do it better. A better option is to install onto a spare drive, so that you can boot the old

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-25 Thread Joe
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:04:18 +0300 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: On Thursday 24 July 2014 22:49:01 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Going by the subject, I'd say wipe your system drive and do another install, using what you have learned to do it better. A

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-25 Thread David Christensen
On 07/25/2014 12:04 AM, David Baron wrote: This is very good and sound advice, actually. Problem is, I tried selecting manual partitioning on the install and saw no interface to actually do it. You're probably not understanding the installer's manual partitioning pages. I learned by fumbling

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-25 Thread David Christensen
On 07/25/2014 02:15 AM, Joe wrote: It's actually /lib/modules that takes up the space, and of course this has to be under / for booting. I have a server in this position, which had an adequately-sized / and separate /usr and /var when installed. 350MB used to be more than enough for a / which

New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-24 Thread David Baron
Yes, indeed. I previously complained about its partitioning with little capability to revise it! (I did not use LVM because it put everything in one big physical partition which I also did not like.) So, want to install a more recent kernel? No room. While I was able to bind /opt and

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:16:32PM +0300, David Baron wrote: Yes, indeed. I previously complained about its partitioning with little capability to revise it! (I did not use LVM because it put everything in one big physical partition which I also did not like.) So, want to install a more

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-24 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 24 July 2014 11:16:47 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Yes, indeed. I previously complained about its partitioning with little capability to revise it! (I did not use LVM because it put everything in one big physical partition which I also did not like.)

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Jul 2014 at 10:26:30 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: Download, burn and boot a copy of GParted-Live[1], which is a live-cd for GParted, the partition manager. Use that to shrink your, say, home partition and grow your root partition. A small point, which may be useful for those without

Re: New 64bit Installation. Root partition too small--what to do?

2014-07-24 Thread David Christensen
On 07/24/2014 02:16 AM, David Baron wrote: Going by the subject, I'd say wipe your system drive and do another install, using what you have learned to do it better. A better option is to install onto a spare drive, so that you can boot the old drive in case you forgot something. The old