On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:16:30PM +0530, anirudh vij wrote: > hi, > i have a blfs system running on a 5 gig partition.around 2.5 gigs are used up. > i am installing some packages that will take up about 1.7 gigs of > additional space. > so i wanted to add a new 12 gig partition to the system.this 12 gig > partition is currently mounted as /home under ubuntu. > how should i do this? > if it can be done ,can i put the /home of blfs on it? > no valuable data exists on the 12 gig partition currently. Apart from what has already been said, consider where space is currently being used. If it's in /var/log, rotate the logs regularly. If it's in /home, it's easy enough to move that to a different partition (and usually beneficial - you can then upgrade the system to yet another '/' partition without losing the data).
What concerns me is packages that will take 1.7 GB - not impossible, but the biggest gnome package I have is gnumeric (50.5MB net space for 64-bit) and even the big kde packages are well under 100MB net - I keep /home (and /boot for x86 and x86_64) separately, and everything else fits in to 4GB partitions. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
