Things you may want to move to other partitions (in common order): YMMV
/usr/local (My first choice)
/home(If you have lots of users...)
/var (a potential rat hoel with web docs and log files...)
/var/log ( on a busy server, this can amount to lots of used space)
/var/www
Use a boot CD. For me, that means running the Mandrake installation CD
with the rescue option. But that's just me.
You *might* be able to boot with u2's partition as the root partition (I
think you pass root=/dev/blah to the kernel at boot). I can see the
kernel complaining, but it might
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:28:48PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
Tonight, in a desperate bid to free up some space on my hard drive, I went
ahead and created a new directory on my huge unused /u2 partition called
bin. Then I copied everything from /bin to /u2/bin. Then I deleted /bin
I try to get partitons right the first time, since moving them about sucks.
i usualy have 7 partions as follows on my workstation
hda:
/mnt/windowsyeah, I dual boot.
/varThis tends to be always in use
swapDitto
hdc:
/boot I do this out of habit,
you don't have to. afaik, most systems will look for old cores and
delete them. but if you want to check, the *easiest* way is to do
locate core.
btw, if you want to know what a core file, see
http://www.dirac.org/linux/gdb.
pete
begin Richard S. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At the risk of
Tonight, in a desperate bid to free up some space on my hard drive, I went
ahead and created a new directory on my huge unused /u2 partition called
bin. Then I copied everything from /bin to /u2/bin. Then I deleted /bin
and created a symbolic link from /bin - /u2/bin.
Then I rebooted.
Have you looked for and deleted all core dumps?
Rusty
On Thursday 21 March 2002 11:28 pm, you wrote:
Tonight, in a desperate bid to free up some space on my hard drive, I went
ahead and created a new directory on my huge unused /u2 partition called
bin. Then I copied everything from /bin to
