On Tuesday 14 November 2000 23:26, you wrote:

> > I've been running my box for a while now and have been watching disk 
usage.
> I was wondering if there was a way to 'tune' my partitions a bit to more
> accurately fit system usage? eg. it's a 30Gb drive and there's 2Gb left in
> /var which it doesn't really need, but the /public path I setup could use
> some extra space, as it is where my household's files (mp3, zip, exe,
> etc..) go for network storage. Any ideas?
>
> <EOL>
> Tib

Yes, without repartitioning, too

For example, if you wanted to use some of the spare space in /var, then

$su -
password (root password)
# mkdir /var/sparespace
# chmod 0777 /var/sparespace       #Or other permissions as you desire
# chown <options> /var/sparespace
# chgrp <options> /var/sparespace
# exit
$ ln -s /var/sparespace /public/mp3s_2

Then you have a directory in /public which is using space in /var

If you do this, remember to periodically clean up logs in /var or you may 
fill it.

Civileme
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