* Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030729 09:20]: > I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My > current situation is > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hde7 5.9G 5.3G 288M 95% / > /dev/hde5 5.9G 2.7G 3.3G 46% /Data > /dev/hde6 5.7G 452M 5.3G 8% /Graphics > /dev/hde8 1012M 7.7M 953M 1% /boot > /dev/hde10 5.8G 33M 5.5G 1% /holding > /dev/hde9 9.7G 4.5G 5.3G 47% /home > /dev/hdf1 5.3G 3.3G 1.8G 65% /mnt/Mdk9_0 > /dev/hdf6 3.9G 2.2G 1.7G 57% /mnt/OldData > /dev/hdf7 6.7G 5.0G 1.7G 75% /mnt/OldHome > /dev/hde1 3.9G 1.8G 2.2G 46% /mnt/windows > > hdf is the old drive, and to be ignored. Only half of hde is > partitioned and used at present. > > /holding is an ext3 partition, empty. > /Data & /Graphics are vfat, and could easily be combined under /Data > > Question: If I do this, then remove /Graphics, can mcc extend a > partition backwards like this? Seems to me that would be > problematic. > > /boot is much bigger than needed, but that wouldn't gain very much > room. > > What is the easiest and safest way of making more space here?
New hard drive, definitely. /dev/hde appears to be a 40G drive; you should be able to replace it with an 80, at least. You could probably then put the old stuff on the 40G if you want, or maybe use it for backups of important stuff from the new drive. I recently replaced two 40G drives with two 160G drives. I tried to keep the old 40G too, just so I could say I had over a third of a terabyte of storage, but the system seemed to be a bit unstable with three hard drives. Probably the power supply is a little weak. Anyway, I would suggest expanding rather than juggling. Whatever you do to try to get back down under 90% (which should be considered a full drive IMHO) would soon be creeping up into the 90% range. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML
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