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 -- QA/Software Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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