At 01:22 PM 01/03/2003, you wrote:
I recently installed Redhat on an old P2 laptop. It works like a champ and i
am extremely pleased. However the laptop only comes with 2.5 GB of hard drive
space. Using the system over the last couple of weeks has the drive at 60% of
its capacity. Thats making me a
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:22, Kapil Khanna wrote:
> I recently installed Redhat on an old P2 laptop. It works like a champ and i
> am extremely pleased. However the laptop only comes with 2.5 GB of hard drive
> space. Using the system over the last couple of weeks has the drive at 60% of
> its capac
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Kapil Khanna wrote:
> I have always wondered if i can mount this additional windows file
> system on / (root) rather than a sub directory of /. That way i can add
No. You can't mount over the root of the filesystem.
> Any ideas on how i can get around this problem? I have th
Joe,
Yes thats what i was thinking too. Thanks for direction.
Cheers!
--Kapil
Joe Polk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sorry I didn't address the external drive. Yes, I would get the
drive setup and create a partition. I would then tar up my /usr
directory. Then remove everything from /usr but I wou
I'm sorry I didn't address the external drive. Yes, I would get the
drive setup and create a partition. I would then tar up my /usr
directory. Then remove everything from /usr but I would think you'll
need to leave /usr there but empty. Then simply mount the new /usr to
/dev/. You'll need an entry
Joe,
Thanks for the suggestions. Well i am using the laptop as a server so it will
always be connected on the network.
>From reading your suggestions i thought maybe buying an external hard drive
could be a solution. Assume i have an external hard drive what should my next
steps be:
1) Format the d
You can't mount to / directly because / is already mounted. You can,
however, mount to a subdirectory by creating the empty directory and
then mounting it. This is why /mnt works and / doesn't. 60% isn't
necessarily a problem yet. The culprit, however, is likely /usr. Much of
your application files
