Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread Net Llama!
ANd more to the point, you if you wish to delete your original /home content, you must mount it (hda1) somewhere else, such as /mnt/tmp and then delete it. On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, stayler wrote: > Hey Scott, > > If you moved all the directories and files from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hda7 > there is simply

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread stayler
Hey Scott, If you moved all the directories and files from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hda7 there is simply the directory for /home that must be present in / in order for /dev/hda7 to have a place to be mounted! Without it there will be no /home. It takes up minimal space. SO don't worry about it... On

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread Ben Duncan
unt it so that I can then go in and remove /dev/hda1/home and thus clear the space it now occupies. Any suggestions? Scott - Original Message - From: "stayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:17 AM Subject: Re: too small li

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread stayler
Hi, Ok, if I am reading your right, you now have /dev/hda7 mounted on /home. If you try to unmount /home the system reports it as busy. Are you logged in as anything else but root? If you moved "mv" all directories and files that were in /home and then mounted /dev/hda7 as /home then you are d

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread stayler
Excellent suggestion. I might add that init 1 should do that for you. Thanks Tim, purple hazed that one stayler On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:01:16 -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: > >Boot into single user mode, as root. >You should then be able to umount /home since root's home directory is >/root. > >

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread Dr. Jones
Lonnie: Here's why, and maybe I don't need to umount it. Now, /home resides on /dev/hda7, yet, there is my old and now inactive /home folder on /dev/hda1. I want to remove /dev/hda1/home and thus clear the space it now occupies. I had hoped to do that by umounting /dev/hda7/home. Scott

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread Tim Wunder
On 2/11/2003 8:37 AM, someone claiming to be Dr. Jones wrote: Stayler: I accomplished the goal of moving my /home directory to /dev/hda7. A reboot and subsequent writes to subdirectories in /home demonstrate that the files are winding up on /dev/hda7. Here's my dilemma now: Since my /home directo

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread Net Llama!
t; attempt to 'umount' this point. I want to umount it so that I can then go in > and remove /dev/hda1/home and thus clear the space it now occupies. > > Any suggestions? > > Scott > > - Original Message - > From: "stayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-11 Thread Dr. Jones
iginal Message - From: "stayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:17 AM Subject: Re: too small linux partition? > On 09 Feb 2003 22:58:02 -0700, Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote: > > >I am trying to find some way to eit

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-10 Thread Joel Hammer
I have had success in installing a new hard drive(s) and moving stuff off the old drive to the new one, and making symbolic links to the new hard drive. Symbolic links can be a hassle, if you make symbolic links pointing back to the original harddrive, etc. This works very well for my /home, /var,

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-10 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 9 Feb 2003, Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote: > I am posing my question to you and to the list. I respect the knowledge > and helpfulness with the list. > > I am running out of room on my linux installation. When I want to > install something new under linux, I look at my disk usage with df -k > a

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-10 Thread stayler
On 09 Feb 2003 22:58:02 -0700, Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote: >I am trying to find some way to either 1) expand the size of my linux >partition dynamically, without destroying the data it contains, or 2) >move some of my folders to an alternate partition on my system, where I >have room, by creatively

Re: too small linux partition?

2003-02-10 Thread Ken Moffat
Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote: Lonnie: I am posing my question to you and to the list. I respect the knowledge and helpfulness with the list. I am running out of room on my linux installation. When I want to install something new under linux, I look at my disk usage with df -k and see that 98% is

too small linux partition?

2003-02-09 Thread Scott S. Jones D.C.
Lonnie: I am posing my question to you and to the list. I respect the knowledge and helpfulness with the list. I am running out of room on my linux installation. When I want to install something new under linux, I look at my disk usage with df -k and see that 98% is used of a 1.4 gig partition.